title: Specifying arbitrary compiler arguments in a Visual Studio project file
body: <p>When using Visual Studio to compile a C++ project, you can set various properties (for optimisation, code generation, linking et cetera) that msbuild translates into appropriate commandline options to cl.exe.</p>
  
  <p>Suppose you want to specify some extra options that msbuild doesn't know about. Is there a way to specify arbitrary compiler arguments in a .vcxproj file, as in 'here is a string, don't worry about what it means, just pass it on to the compiler'?</p>