Listing contents of a directory using msbuild

Question

I'm trying to debug an msbuild script that is being run on our TFS build agent. I have no permissions to the build agent server.

Is there a way I can add some debugging to my msbuild script ("Message" or similar) to output a listing of all the files in a given directory?

Answer 1

Hope this helps to list all the files in the folder where the MSBuild files are there recursively:

<Target Name="Listing">
    <ItemGroup>
      <PackageFiles Include="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\**\*.*;"/>
    </ItemGroup>
    <Message Text="%(PackageFiles.FullPath)"/>
</Target>