public void LinkToProperty(MSBuildProperty property)
{
// Binds this evaluated property to a property defined in a property group, so that if this evaluated property
// is modified, the change will be propagated to that linked property.
linkedProperty = property;
if (EvaluatedValueIsStale && property != null)
{
// This will be true if the property has been modified in the project,
// which means that the evaluated value of the property may be out of date.
// In that case, we set the EvaluatedValueModified on the linked property,
// which means that the property will be saved no matter what the
// evaluated value was. Also, InitEvaluatedValue() is not called
// because the evaluated value we have is stale
property.EvaluatedValueModified = true;
return;
}
// Initialize the linked property with the evaluated property only if it has not yet modified (it doesn't have
// its own value).
if (linkedProperty != null && !linkedProperty.Modified && !IsNew)
{
linkedProperty.InitEvaluatedValue(evaluatedValue, DefinedMultipleTimes || property.IsNew);
}
// DefinedMultipleTimes is used to determine if the property value has been set several times during evaluation.
// This is useful to know because if the property is set only once, we know that if we remove the property definition,
// we are resetting the property to an empty value, and not just inheriting a value from a previous definition.
// This information is provided to the linked property in the InitEvaluatedValue call, and used later on
// when saving the project to determine if the property definition can be removed or not.
// If property.IsNew==true it means that the property was not defined in the property group, and it is now
// being defined. It means that the property will actually end having multiple definitions (the definition
// that generated this evaluated property, and the new one in the property group).
}
public void LinkToProperty(MSBuildProperty property)
{
linkedProperty = property;
if (linkedProperty != null && !linkedProperty.Modified && !IsNew)
{
linkedProperty.InitEvaluatedValue(evaluatedValue);
}
}
public void LinkToProperty (MSBuildProperty property)
{
linkedProperty = property;
if (linkedProperty != null && !linkedProperty.Modified && !IsNew)
linkedProperty.InitEvaluatedValue (evaluatedValue);
}