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Monday, March 30, 2009 12:58 PM

Debug your build with MSBuild Sidekick v2.3

The folks at Attrice have released a new version of their MSBuild Sidekick , and it now includes a visual debugger for msbuild.  If you've ever tried to debug a build process, you know how tedious it can be and will want to check this out. MSBuild
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Friday, February 06, 2009 2:00 PM

New book on MSBuild and Team Foundation Build

There is now a book dedicated to MSBuild and Team Foundation Build.  The book is written by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi and William Bartholomew .  Sayed has written about MSBuild before, both in books and MSDN Magazine articles, and William is a Team
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:00 AM

Using Team Foundation Build with BizTalk and SSIS projects

Unfortunately there are several types of projects that do not work natively with MSBuild. Jim Lamb , program manager for Team Build, has put together a few posts with pointers on how to get these to work with Team Build. Project System Compatibility with
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:00 PM

MSBuild Extensions Pack now available

Mike Fourie has released the first version of MSBuild Extensions Pack on CodePlex . This is a great collection of quality tasks for MSBuild that you can also use in Team Foundation Build. The MSBuild Extension Pack is the successor to the FreeToDev MSBuild
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:56 PM

Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008 recording is now available

Charles Sterling announced a new interactive forum called MVP TV earlier this month. The first event was Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008 . Now the recording for this event is available. The debut of MVP TV Attendance: 92 attendees Thursday,
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:07 AM

MSBuild project analysis tool: BuildCop

Jelle Druyts has created an interesting tool and made it available on CodePlex . Just Released: BuildCop v1.0! It is with great pleasure that I'm finally ready to release another open source tool on CodePlex : BuildCop . BuildCop is a tool that analyzes
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:00 AM

MSBuild by Example

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi's book, Deploying .NET Applications , contains a chapter on MSBuild.  While I knew about the chapter in the book, I didn't realize that the chapter on MSBuild was available online until Eugene Zakhareyev mentioned it. If you
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:35 PM

MSBuild Sidekick V2 beta

Eugene Zakhareyev has released a beta of the second version of MSBuild Sidekick. This version adds some unique features, including visualizing the build targets. If you've ever had to pick up someone else's msbuild project files, you'll really appreciate
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 2:36 PM

How would you prioritize features for MSBuild?

Dan Moseley, a developer on the MSBuild team , wants to know how you would prioritize features for the next version of MSBuild by asking, How would you spend $100 on MSBuild? The release of Visual Studio 2008 is imminent, which means the product teams
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:18 PM

New home for the AssemblyInfo task

The AssemblyInfo task has a new home, because the CodeGallery portion of GoDotNet is being phased out. You can now find it here in the GotDotNet User Samples. The AssemblyInfo task is useful for updating assembly version numbers as part of your build.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:05 AM

SDC MSBuild tasks library is now on CodePlex (moved from GotDotNet)

Last August, I posted a set of links to sites with MSBuild tasks for all sorts of things you might need to run your build. The SDC Tasks Library , which was part of Microsoft Services (UK) Enterprise Solutions Build Framework (SBF) on the GotDotNet, is
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 8:43 PM

How to deal with the Y2K7 problem -- file versions and AssemblyInfoTask

If you use the AssemblyInfoTask to stamp the version numbers for your assemblies that you build with MSBuild as part of your Team Build process, you may run into the "Y2K7" problem. The version number is stored as a 16-bit (yes, 16 not 32) unsigned integer.
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:23 PM

Building software against different versions of .NET with MSBuild in Orcas

Faisal Mohamood, a program manager on the MSBuild team , has written a pair of posts about the "multi-targeting" feature in the Orcas version of MSBuild. Multi-targeting allows you to build your code against the .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 frameworks, according
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:00 AM

Links to MSBuild tasks to extend your build system

Build systems need to do all sorts of things, from updating web sites to deploying databases. Often, the tasks needed to do these things are available, but finding them can be a challenge. I've collected links to various MSBuild task collections that
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Friday, August 11, 2006 8:00 AM

MSBuild wiki

In addition to the MSBuild documentation on MSDN and the MSBuild team blog , there is an MSBuild wiki on Channel9. I had seen it before, but forgotten about it until I saw it mentioned in one of Chris Sells' old blog posts ( My First MsBuild Task ). Here's
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