Specify the usage of quotes in property values #10025
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Co-authored-by: Jan Krivanek <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jan Krivanek <[email protected]>
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This is good; I think we should consider putting a simplified form of it in the actual CLI docs at https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs/blob/main/docs/msbuild/msbuild-command-line-reference.md
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Fixes #9944
Context
During exploring and investigation different issues it is sometimes not clear how to escape special chars inside different apps when calling msbuild.exe. PR contains introduction of new topic: quotes in property values and how to pass it from cmd, powershell windows, powershell core to msbuild
Changes Made
Update of the documetation.
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