I came across some odd behaviour with msbuild this week. I was building a solution from the command line and setting the platform to Any CPU. This worked find and the whole solution built. I then built one of the projects in the solution on its own (to create a clickonce installer), again with the platform set to Any CPU, and this time it failed. The error I got was that I was trying to build for an unknown platform.
It turns out that the actual platform described in the .csproj is AnyCPU (i.e. without a space) and that when building a solution Any CPU gets translated to Any CPU. So to build a solution you need to use Any CPU and to build a project you need to use AnyCPU. How bizarre.
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