Stop using the default temp directory and temp file paths
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Description
Using Path.GetTempPath() and GetTempFileName() is an anti-pattern. We currently use paths like these:
`C:\Users\VssAdministrator\AppData\Local\Temp\ntg31ahj.fhf\tmp71A.tmp` and the problem is the default algorithm only allows 65,536 temp files. If we overflow, we start failing to create a temp file. Users run into this periodically when their temp directory is full. These errors are usually hard to diagnose (why did this temp file failed to get created??)
It is considered a good practice to create a folder "MSBuild" under Temp, and only write everything under that folder, so that people know who owns these files. Ideally of course the OS would provide a dedicated isolated temp folder for each app.
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