I'm working on making the FastUpToDate check in Vs work for the Terminal project. This is one of a few PRs in this area.
FastUpToDate lets vs check quickly determine that it doesn't need to do anything for a given project.
However, a few of our projects don't produce all the right artifacts, or check too many things, and this eventually causes the `wapproj` to rebuild, EVERY TIME YOU F5 in VS.
This third PR deals with the Actual fast up to date check for the CascadiaPackage.wapproj. When #11804, #11805 and this PR are all merged, you should be able to just F5 the Terminal in VS, and then change NOTHING, and F5 it again, without doing a build at all.
The wapproj `GetResolvedWinMD` target tries to get a winmd from every cppwinrt
executable we put in the package. But we DON'T produce a winmd. This makes the
FastUpToDate check fail every time, and leads to the whole wapproj build
running even if you're just f5'ing the package. EVEN AFTER A SUCCESSFUL BUILD.
Setting GenerateWindowsMetadata=false is enough to tell the build system that
we don't produce one, and get it off our backs.
### teams chat where we figured this out
[3:38 PM] Dustin Howett
however, that's not the only thing that "GetTargetPath" checks.
[3:38 PM] Dustin Howett
oh yeah more info: wapproj calls GetTargetPath on all projects it references
[3:38 PM] Dustin Howett
when it calls GTP on WindowsTerminal.vcxproj it is getting back a winmd (!)
[3:39 PM] Dustin Howett
here's the magic
[3:39 PM] Dustin Howett
[3:39 PM] Dustin Howett
it checks if any Link items specify GenerateWindowsMetadata
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