EnsureOutputLayout.props

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Copyright (c) Howard Kapustein. All rights reserved. Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE in the project root for license information. -->
<Project ToolsVersion="14.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <!-- Due to import ordering inconsistencies between different project types, we import this file
         from multiple places. This property denotes it has been imported, to avoid multiple import warnings. -->
    <EnsureOutputLayoutPropsIncluded>true</EnsureOutputLayoutPropsIncluded>

    <!-- The root of the repository -->
    <RepoRoot>$([System.IO.Path]::GetFullPath('$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)'))</RepoRoot>

    <!-- This is defined in Platform.Default.props for each platform,
         but we need it early to ensure our output directories are formatted consistently -->
    <PlatformTarget>$(Platform)</PlatformTarget>
    <PlatformTarget Condition="$(Platform) == 'Win32'">x86</PlatformTarget>

    <!-- Use PlatformTarget instead of Platform to keep things more consistent (avoid 'Win32' as a build output) -->
    <BaseOutputPath>$(RepoRoot)\bin\$(Configuration)\$(PlatformTarget)\</BaseOutputPath>

    <!-- Intermediate files under obj\. Some intermediate file paths are really long, thus avoid unnecessary subdirectories -->
    <BaseIntermediateOutputPath>$(RepoRoot)\obj\$(Configuration)\$(PlatformTarget)\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</BaseIntermediateOutputPath>
    <IntermediateOutputPath>$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)</IntermediateOutputPath>

    <!-- This is later fixed up to contain the project name, but if we specify it here then it ends up being included twice. -->
    <OutDir>$(BaseOutputPath)</OutDir>
    <OutputPath>$(OutDir)\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
    <TargetDir>$(OutDir)</TargetDir>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>