LocalMarkupCompilation

Local Markup Compilation

This repo builds PresentationBuildTasks.dll and the WindowsDesktop SDK itself, which are needed for markup-compilation.

Some of the projects in this repo require Markup Compilation themselves - for e.g., theme assemblies.

Here, we outline the scheme used by this repo to bootstrap markup compilation before a full-fledged WindowsDesktop SDK is available. All projects in this repo are base .NET Core SDK projects that utilize additional props/targets outlined below to enable markup compilation.

Local Markup Compilation is implemented in the following files:

- eng\WpfArcadeSdk\tools\Pbt.props
- eng\WpfArcadeSdk\tools\Pbt.targets
- eng\WpfArcadeSdk\tools\NoInternalTypeHelper.targets

See comments in these targets for further details. Some additional work is needed to make this work completely. It can be enabled for a project by setting this:

<PropertyGroup>
  <InternalMarkupCompilation>true</InternalMarkupCompilation>
</PropertyGroup>

Also, it's a good idea to use the following properties:

<PropertyGroup>
  <NoInternalTypeHelper>true</NoInternalTypeHelper>
  <GenerateDependencyFile>false<GenerateDependencyFile>
</PropertyGroup>

Please take a look at src\Microsoft.DotNet.Wpf\src\PresentationUI\PresentationUI.csproj to see how this is utilized.

In addition to these, care must be taken for the following:

• Use <EmbeddedResource> instead of <Resource>
  • PresentationBuildTask will strip out <Resource> items during _CompileTemporaryAssembly phase. Using EmbeddedResource is equivalent (esp. in for Xlf based string resource generation with Arcade.Sdk) and will not be adversely affected by PresentationBuildTasks transformations.