Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Transformations

Transformations apply to a list of items and enable changing a piece of information for each item in the list into a different format. Consider the following items group, which refers to all text files within a directory:

Then imagine you want to send the list of files to the logger. This is accomplished with the following line, to be added into the item group:

<Message Text="@(MyFiles)"/>

The @ Character

The @ character is used for referring to a list of items, differently from $ that is used for referring to a property value.

Now imagine you want to construct the list of items only with the filename and extension without the ...