The recursive MSBuild task UseDebugCRT forces incorrect solution build

[DHowett]

There is a task, UseDeubgCRT, that forces the evaluation of a project file in the wrong context.

That context is missing the SolutionDir global property because it is using ProjectCollection.LoadProject with a hardcoded set of properties.

This causes any projects that <Import> files based on SolutionDir to fail to load.

Using MSBuild programmatically in this way, you must use:

var project = ProjectCollection.GlobalProjectCollection.GetLoadedProjects(projectPath).FirstOrDefault();

[taenri]

I am having the same exact issue with our product. Has any progress been made towards solving this issue?

EDIT:
To potentially save others a lot of pain, setting the VCRTForwarders-IncludeDebugCRT property to false for Release configurations solved our issue!

We were having problems with one of our vcxproj dependencies that used the MSBuild GetDirectoryNameOfFileAbove property function that took $(SolutionDir) as one of its parameters. This task for some behaves differently with Release configuration than Debug, so it is best to just skip the task altogether in Release config since it is not needed.