How to get the value of a msbuild property from a custom task?

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Published on 2009-03-04T07:00:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 19:07 UTC
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Is there some way to access the value of a msbuild property from a custom task? I know I can send them all in, but it would be nice not to :) Trying to do this from a tfs build.

Or is there som way to access the "build script" currently running? Maybe like an object model and from there get what I need?

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