We got a question today on our internal discussion alias about the behaviour of wildcard expansions in project files. It went roughly like this: I have the following target declared in my project file: <Target Name="MyTarget" Inputs="$...

The folks in our customer experience team have posted the first public beta of MSBuild Extras - Toolkit for .NET 1.1 (the project formerly known as "MSBee"). If you're interested in building .NET 1.1 applications using MSBuild this is the tool for you...

Back in November I wrote about a quick-and-dirty way to add custom build process into the standard Visual Studio build by overriding pre-defined targets that exist in Microsoft.Common.Targets. While this method works fine for internal build processes...

In Part I of the series on writing custom tasks, I covered the basic mechanics behind implementing your own custom task. And I had promised that I'd cover the details on the types of task parameters that are supported today. So here we go. The simplest...

Faisal's started a series on writing custom tasks , and just sent me an IM about how excited he is about his next entry. In fact, he says he has it all in his head, but because his head doesn't have a USB port for direct download it's going to take him...

This morning we had our review of work done during Sprint 12. As you hopefully recall we run two sprints simultaneously: one focused on our conversion effort and one focused on platform investments. Sumedh got stuck in traffic on 520 , so Faisal stepped...