Every couple of weeks I get mail from someone who is using the AssemblyInfoTask on a build machine under source control. The question typically goes like this: I added the .targets file to my project, and it works fine on my dev machine, but doesn...

Craig just announced over on his blog that Beta 2 is available . New features in this release include: Support for the ResolveComReference task! Redirecting the LC task to target .NET 1.1 Defining a FX1_1 constant to let you exclude .NET 2...

I've been in a cave just getting things done toward our Orcas release. But there's not much a Program Manager can do without going back to their customers :) So here I am. So here's the scoop. We've been debating internally about a new command line...

Today the folks in our game studios team (XNA) used the Game Developer's Conference to roll out the first major public viewing of what they've been hard at work on. If you want to read about the overall technology preview they released you can look at...

(Can you tell I'm going through my folder of interesting MSBuild questions today?) Here's another good question that came across our internal discussion alias last week: Is there a quick and easy way to bypass the PostBuild steps in a project...

Here's another question from our internal conversion discussion alias that came through last week: Does the Delete task in MSBuild not use wildcards? The documentation doesn’t say anything about it but that seems to be the behavior I am seeing....

We've had variations of the same question on how to distribute tasks come through both internal and external channels in the last couple of weeks. Here's one example: If we have a product that is installing custom MSBuild tasks, are there any type...

Earlier this week we got the following question from one of our VSIP partners: What is the difference between using MSBuild.GlobalEngine or “ new Engine() ” to build a project programmatically? I actually never knew there were two ways to...

We got the following question on our internal conversion discussion alias today: Is there a way to exclude two or more items from an ItemGroup using the “exclude” attribute without using a wildcard? It turns out the way to do this wasn't clear...