Does MonoDevelop support custom targets in project (csproj) files?

Question

For example adding this to a csproj

<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
      <Exec Command="foo.exe arg1 arg2"  />
</Target>

For me it seems to be ignoring them

Answer 1

You can turn it on in the options screen

Answer 2

MD supports MSBuild projects by mapping them into its old internal build engine, which can't support arbitrary MSBuild constructs like this.

There is experimental support to use MSBuild/xbuild as the build engine, and you can enable this in MD Preferences.