MSBuild Team Blog

Following extensive feedback on the decision to move the MSBuild blog to The Visual Studio Blog , a decision has been made to cross-post all MSBuild blog posts to this blog. All current MSBuild posts to The Visual Studio Blog have now been posted here...

Have you ever wanted to do something simple in a build, like get a substring of a property value, and found that MSBuild didn't have syntax for it? You then had to write a task for it, which was tiresome to do for such a simple operation. What's more...