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msbuild-modernization

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Fine to try.

By microsoft/testfx (GitHub) · coding · 1,059 stars · scanned at commit 8dd78e1

Guide for modernizing and migrating MSBuild project files to SDK-style format. USE FOR: converting legacy .csproj/.vbproj with verbose XML to SDK-style, migrating packages.config to PackageReference, removing Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs in favor of auto-generation, eliminating explicit Compile Include lists via implicit globbing, consolidating shared settings into Directory.Build.props. Indicators of legacy projects: ToolsVersion attribute, an Import of Microsoft.CSharp.targets via $(MSBuildTool…

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild-modernization' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild-modernization' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named msbuild-modernization already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/microsoft/testfx' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8dd78e1347417e400c3ef8d786059a8bb346162f' -- '.agents/skills/msbuild-modernization' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.agents/skills/msbuild-modernization' ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild-modernization' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild-modernization' ~/.claude/skills/'msbuild-modernization' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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• stanfish06/skillquarium/skills/msbuild-modernization