Adding JavaScript tasks to your MSBuild project.

myprojectexample.csproj

  <!-- custom targets -->
  <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
    
    <Message Text="Node Check Started" />
    <Exec Command="node || start http://nodejs.org &amp;&amp; echo You need to install NodeJS" ContinueOnError="false" />
    <Message Text="Node Check Ended" />
    
    <Message Text="NPM Install Started" />
    <Exec WorkingDirectory="$(ProjectDir)" Command="npm install" ContinueOnError="false" />
    <Message Text="NPM Install Ended" />
    
    <Message Text="Gulp Tasks Started" />
    <!--- Some Gulp Task(s) --->
    <Exec WorkingDirectory="$(ProjectDir)" Command="node_modules\.bin\gulp someGulpTask" ContinueOnError="false" />
    <Message Text="Gulp Tasks Ended" />
    
    <!--- Include any artifact files that we generate so the project is aware of them -->
    <ItemGroup>
        <Content Include="supercoolpath/supercoolfile.js" />
    </ItemGroup>

  </Target>