dotnet test - allow to specify msbuild properties

At the moment if you run dotnet test myexample.csproj - by default it would try to build and run that test. I however would like to pass extra msbuild parameters to project file, so I could mimic project presence in solution.

Normally you would like to set SolutionName and SolutionDir properties, but it’s possible that even custom properties needs to be defined.

Command line syntax could be extended to be something like this:

dotnet test -pSolutioName=mySolution myexample.csproj

(Pure example, dev team can decide best approach)

[baronfel]

Figured it out - this is actually an unanticipated interaction of the current argument configuration of the parser. Line 36, where the SlnOrProjectArgument is added to the options to forward, is where the -p argument is added. This is…unanticipated…to say the least.

[StefanSchoof]

I today found out that a dotnet build --property:SkipFrontendBuild=true is working, but for test I need to have a dotnet test -p:SkipFrontendBuild=true and a --property is silently ignored . Took me a moment.