I’m using the MSBuild APIs.

I have a simple ProjectRootElement:

var project = ProjectRootElement.Create(XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(input)));

Then, I iterate over all PropertyGroups:

foreach (ProjectPropertyGroupElement group in project.PropertyGroups)
{
    Console.WriteLine(group.Condition);
}

When I access the .Condition property of ProjectPropertyGroupElement, I’m assuming that this will return a boolean, which specifies the evaluated value of the condition.

For example, I have a PropertyGroup here:

<PropertyGroup Condition="$(UpdateVersion) >= $(CurrentVersion) and $(Status.ToLower()) == 'newupdate'">
    <UpdateVersion>158</UpdateVersion>
    <CurrentVersion>144</CurrentVersion>
    <Status>NewUpdate</Status>
    <Reporting>
        <UpdateAvailable />
    </Reporting>
</PropertyGroup>

When I access the .Condition property, I assume that this will evaluate the Condition attribute of PropertyGroup and return the result as a boolean. The condition attribute checks if ‘UpdateVersion’ >= ‘CurrentVersion’ and ‘Status’ equals to ‘NewUpdate’, which should return true. Instead, the Condition property returns the raw condition value:

$(UpdateVersion) >= $(CurrentVersion) and $(Status.ToLower()) == 'newupdate'

Is there a way to evaluate the .Condition property of ProjectPropertyGroupElement into a boolean?