I'm writing a script for msbuild which should make two batches in one step.
Example: 2 ItemGroups

<ItemGroup>
 <GroupOne Include="1" />
 <GroupOne Include="2" />
</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup>
 <GroupTwo Include="A" />
 <GroupTwo Include="B" />
</ItemGroup>

These two groups should be looped within each other:

<Message Text="%(GroupOne.Identity) %(GroupTwo.Identity)" />

I hoped that msbuild makes the result up of both batches giving

1 A  
2 A  
1 B  
2 B

as result.
But that didn't happen. Instead, it returned the following useless crap:

1  
2  
  A  
  B

Doing it the way the blog from the link below proposes (using a local propertygroup) like 

<PropertyGroup>
  <GroupOneStep>%(GroupOne.Identity)</GroupOneStep>
</PropertyGroup>
<Message Text="$(GroupOneStep) %(GroupTwo.Identity)" />

makes

2 A   
2 B

Any hints? I'm going mad. :-(

PS: Here's a blogpost about the topic - unfortunately it doesn't work as propsed there: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/giuliov/archive/2010/04/30/gotcha-msbuild-nested-loops-double-batching.aspx

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