"in general, macros in item names are not currently supported. If VS1025" [sic] "was able to work with them - it is an accident."
Something truly useful you claim was due to a bug (calling it "an accident" doesn't change that)?
Perhaps Microsoft should document this, so customers know when something is working "by accident", and when (if) it's designed to work properly.
Sorry, I should have said: projects which using macros in items names are not guaranteed to work (and there are problems with them in Dev15 and before as well in various scenarios). We realize that people do use them (and for a good reason) and that we are missing the documentation on what VS actually expects from the project and what limitations/requirements on top of msbuild it has. We are working on it.
Thanks,
Olga
This issue has been fixed and is now available in our latest update. You can download the update via the in-product notification or from here: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/ Thanks to everyone who provided feedback, votes and solutions for this problem.
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I have installed the fix by upgrading to the latest version of Visual Studio. The issue is still not fixed: