{"id":506,"date":"2010-05-17T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2010-05-17T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:20:26","slug":"custom-build-step-on-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Custom build step on file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BTW, in earlier versions of Visual Studio (definitely VC++ 6, but maybe later) it was possible to add an arbitrary custom compilation step for a file, that worked just fine &#8211; no need to modify projects and the like. They removed this capability in favor of &#8220;custom tools&#8221; that, in my opinion, is inferior: you no longer can use simple text transformation command-line utilities &#8220;as is&#8221;, you need some COM-bloated integration layer around them, to make them either MSBuild tasks, or custom tools, or add-ins, or whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTW, in earlier versions of Visual Studio (definitely VC++ 6, but maybe later) it was possible to add an arbitrary custom compilation step for a file, that worked just fine <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=506\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}