Rainer Sigwald

That seems like a pit of failure to me. What do you do after you have found the MSBuild from VS that you can't load in your process?

> Perhaps the target always runs (it doesn't declare any inputs/outputs as far as I can see). It does, and the task has its own internal state lookup that tries...

There are several advanced uses like "include the `ProjectReference` for build ordering but then do {some more complicated thing to reconstruct the path} and `Reference` that for use in compilation"....

> There's enough signal that this isn't VS-specific, so I'm going to move this to MSBuild for further investigation. Can you elaborate on this? My read is that all of...

@weshaggard Right, you couldn't possibly run a full-framework task off of Windows. Could potentially use Mono . . . I tend to agree that this doesn't seem worthwhile.

There's additional fun, because running tasks isn't the only place where we might be highly OS or Framework dependent--we offer [property functions](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd633440.aspx) that can be as well, and don't have...

I like having "cancelled" logging but it's "failed" because it didn't "complete without errors", which makes sense IMO.

I was thinking more or less of a new `BuildCancelledEventArgs` that the engine would raise to indicate to loggers to emit a message like this one. That could then be...

I remember talking about this when @cdmihai implemented the current mechanism but I don't know enough about the problem space to have a good opinion off the bat. Speaking from...

There are some conflicting constraints that will keep us from getting to a perfect solution, but we can do better than requiring the workaround above. The _ideal_ solution would have...