There is quite a bit to learn when it comes to [MSBuild], the new build engine inside [Delphi2007]

So I've been hunting around for a msbuild editor and I came across [MSBuildSideKick]. This is a really nice gui based editor for editing msbuild files.

Currently to open [Delphi2007]  project files you have to tweak a file that gets installed by [Delphi2007] in one of the dotnet directories, on my system its C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

The file in question is Borland.Common.Targets. If you plan on modifying it, make sure you keep a backup of the file in question .

Inside the file is this piece of xml
 

    <!--
    ========================================================================
                             Load Options File
        Load a standard options file the user can define.  This allows
        users to store common paths and compiler options in a single
        msbuild project to simplify the building of large projects with
        many msbuild files.
    ========================================================================
    -->

    <Import Project="$(GlobalOptionFile)" Condition=" Exists('$(GlobalOptionFile)') "/>

You need to remove the xml comments so that you just have

    <Import Project="$(GlobalOptionFile)" Condition=" Exists('$(GlobalOptionFile)') "/>

 
So following on from this blog post  , here is the Delphi Project File buildthis.dproj in [msbuildsidekick]

I contacted the [msbuildsidekick] developers and they acknowledged that there was a bug with how imports where handled and they expect to release a patch soon.