I have a simple hello world console app with top level statements as follows:

Console.WriteLine("Hello world");

I would like to experiment with automatically executing targets before the build process, so I edited the CSPROJ file as follows;

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
    <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
    <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
  </PropertyGroup>
    
  <Target Name="BeforeBuild" BeforeTargets="Build">
    <Message Text="BEFORE BUILD TARGET" Importance="high" />
  </Target>
</Project>

I tried dotnet build MyProj.csproj with verbosity levels all the way up to diagnostic. However I can’t get the message text to appear.

What am I doing wrong here?