If you think the "core" is well documented, link me the documentation which lays out all the built in targets involved in a standard c# project. Or even just a

If you think the "core" is well documented, link me the documentation which lays out all the built in targets involved in a standard c# project. Or even just a doc which describes the differences between PreBuildEvent, BeforeBuild, BeforeCompile, etc. As far as I can tell, this only exists as occasional comments in the .targets file. Msbuild documentation is horrible, without exception. When they occasionally document something it tends to miss half the optional flags and they never link the source code so it's up to you to find and correct it.