I have been playing around with a few MSBuild properties inside a Directory.Builds.props of which the latest is changing location of obj/bin folders. By default the project output is put inside of sdk / TargetFramework version folder e.g. proj/bin/Debug/net8.0/

When the <OutDir> property is used to set custom directory the sdk version is not included. I have looked at the ms docs for a variable but couldn’t find one that worked. I have also looked into reading the .csproj file as well but I have had issues finding a solution for getting a specific xml value from the file e.g. TargetFramework. A lot of the docs that pop up are very old as well and I’d prefer not going there if there is a simpler solution.

Example Directory.Build.props file:

<Project>
    <PropertyGroup>
        <OutDir>$(SolutionDir)/builds/$(MSBuildProjectName)/bin/$(Configuration)</OutDir>
        ...
    </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

Example console project file:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    <PropertyGroup>
        <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
        <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
    </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

Example output dir of above would be:

solution/builds/proj/bin/debug/

What I’d like to have with version:

solution/builds/proj/bin/debug/net8.0

How to get the sdk / TargetFramework version?