VCToolTask base class

Many tasks ultimately inherit from the Task class and ToolTask class. This class adds several parameters to the tasks that derive from them. These parameters are listed in this document.

Parameters

The following table describes the parameters of the VCToolTask base class.

Parameter	Description
ActiveToolSwitchesValues	Optional Dictionary<string, ToolSwitch> parameter.
AdditionalOptions	Optional string parameter.
EffectiveWorkingDirectory	Optional string parameter.
EnableErrorListRegex	Optional bool parameter. Default is true.
ErrorListRegex	Optional ITaskItem[] parameter.
ErrorListListExclusion	Optional ITaskItem[] parameter.
GenerateCommandLine	Optional string parameter. Uses values CommandLineFormat format [default = CommandLineFormat.ForBuildLog] and EscapeFormat escapeFormat [default = EscapeFormat.Default].
GenerateCommandLineExceptSwitches	Optional string parameter. Uses values string[] switchesToRemove, CommandLineFormat format [default = CommandLineFormat.ForBuildLog], and EscapeFormat escapeFormat [default = EscapeFormat.Default].

See also

Task reference
Tasks