[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015031]: visual studio 2012 generator ampersand escaping

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15031 
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Reported By:                mscott
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15031
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2014-07-22 08:36 EDT
Last Modified:              2014-07-22 08:36 EDT
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Summary:                    visual studio 2012 generator ampersand escaping
Description: 
The Visual Studio 2012 generator does not seem to escape ampersands in source
file paths correctly, resulting in the generated project XML containing errors
and being un-openable with Visual Studio. 

I tested the same config with the Visual Studio 2008 generator and did not
encounter the same issue. When looking at the generated XML, in VS2008 the '&'
character is replaced by '&'. 

Steps to Reproduce: 
Create a target whose sources includes a file path with the '&' character, then
run cmake specifying VS2012 as the generator, open the created solution and
notice that it cannot open the target project. 
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2014-07-22 08:36 mscott         New Issue                                    
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