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Feature Request: feature-test function

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See also #2916

MSBuild.exe has supported `TaskHostFactory` since VS2012, but support only landed in the .NET SDK in version 17.1 (6.0.200).

It is possible to write a condition to test for both cases, including making use of a version comparison (assuming that's supported in older VS/SDKs).

However, it would be _far_ more convenient (and far less brittle) to have a property function available to test for this and other features, e.g. `Condition=" $([MSBuild]::HasFeature('task-host-factory')) "`. This would then require documenting the feature names for any other new features added in each release.

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