MSBuild Team Blog
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Not many books that are reviewed like this on Amazon: Now the heavily augmented second edition has...
Date: 01/05/2011
We've had a few reports of cases where Visual Studio, and previous versions of MSBuild, will build...
Date: 12/21/2010
Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 we have received a few reports of crashing behavior which...
Date: 07/15/2010
In my last two posts (here and here) I showed how to enable the unsupported MSBuild debugger to...
Date: 07/09/2010
In my previous post, I showed how to enable the hidden Visual Studio debugger for MSBuild script,...
Date: 07/09/2010
Back when we started 4.0 development, I polled readers of the MSBuild blog to find out what features...
Date: 07/06/2010
Introduction In MSBuild 4 we introduced several performance improvements, particular for large...
Date: 06/03/2010
Assembly references are an integral part of build process. When the assembly references passed to...
Date: 05/11/2010
During the Visual Studio 2010 development cycle a push to make the build experience better on Cross...
Date: 05/07/2010
Some more information about this 4.0 feature. (I've also updated the first post with this, so...
Date: 05/05/2010
Following extensive feedback on the decision to move the MSBuild blog to The Visual Studio Blog, a...
Date: 04/18/2010
Have you ever wanted to do something simple in a build, like get a substring of a property value,...
Date: 04/02/2010
In previous versions of MSBuild users could see the initial item and property values of projects in...
Date: 03/31/2010
A great way to get fast builds on a multiprocessor computer is to take advantage of as much...
Date: 03/07/2010
Introduction When we were developing the current version of MSBuild, we spent a lot of time...
Date: 03/05/2010
I have had several customers asking me about MSBuild and how to get started learning the language...
Date: 02/25/2010
One of the cool new features of MSBuild 4.0 is the extensible task factory. Task factories allow you...
Date: 02/20/2010
Introduction With the release of .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 comes MSBuild 4.0. Among...
Date: 02/18/2010
If you have the RC build of VS2010, you are targeting the 3.5, 3.0, or 2.0 Framework, you have a VB...
Date: 02/15/2010
I had the distinct pleasure to meet up with Ken Levy and talk about MSBuild. Ken is responsible for...
Date: 01/22/2010
We aren’t going away -- we’re just moving to a better home. To give you even more news, articles,...
Date: 11/13/2009
Well the CTP is now out, and I hope all are enjoying a preview of the new features being released in...
Date: 10/31/2008
I am very happy to pass on news from Mike Fourie that has released v1 of a remarkably extensive...
Date: 10/14/2008
Six months ago, the developers on MSBuild began to use an internal tool then called "StyleCop" in...
Date: 05/23/2008
We have an infrastructure in developer division for performance measurement. Before a feature crew...
Date: 02/11/2008
There's a new article by Xin Yan and myself published in the .NET Developer's Journal. We cover...
Date: 01/07/2008
Two new MSBuild community tools to check out! Eugene from Attrice has blogged about the...
Date: 12/03/2007
There were over 80 responses to my recent post asking for feedback on where MSBuild should be...
Date: 11/30/2007
MSBuild 3.5 "Orcas" has now shipped. You can get the free download from here. It's included in the...
Date: 11/21/2007
We're currently planning for our next version (aka, "Dev10" - no code name this time) and subsequent...
Date: 11/17/2007
I've heard these confused in the context of MSBuild, so let's talk a little about what they are: * A...
Date: 11/14/2007
Juergen Bayer notified us of an issue introduced in MSBuild in .NET 3.5 "Orcas". The problem is if...
Date: 10/19/2007
I just got a pretty interesting mail from Dave Hickey at Premera, describing how his team is using...
Date: 10/19/2007
If you're using the new VS 2008 multitargeting features to target .NET 2.0 you should be aware that...
Date: 10/09/2007
Greetings MSBuilders! In Visual Studio 2005 you could only target the 2.0 Framework tools. MSBuild...
Date: 07/17/2007
Greetings MSBuilders! Passing properties to projects specifically when you want to pass different...
Date: 07/17/2007
During development of the multi-targeting feature of the next version of MSBuild, we found it...
Date: 05/04/2007
Greetings MSBuilders! Orcas MSBuild introduces a new feature allowing build authors to build...
Date: 04/26/2007
Greetings MSBuilders! Orcas MSBuild introduces a new parameter for the CallTarget and MSBuild task...
Date: 04/26/2007
Greetings MSBuilders! With the MultiProc support in MSBuild Orcas (now available in Visual Studio...
Date: 04/16/2007
Greetings MSBuilders! An internal team (Office Live, I think) asked us how to make their build start...
Date: 04/13/2007
Greetings MSBuilders! The way in which Visual Studio inserts and drops document tabs arouses...
Date: 04/13/2007
Those of you who've been using the 3.0 Framework may have noticed a folder under Program Files...
Date: 04/12/2007
In my previous post I explained how to fix the issue with the default date format provided in the...
Date: 01/03/2007
The arrival of 2007 bought a flurry of e-mails to the MSBuild team from people having trouble with...
Date: 01/03/2007
Brennan has a great post about all things MSBuild, and covers good breadth on both concepts, as well...
Date: 12/04/2006
So in my last post, I described the multi-targeting feature at a very high level. I discussed how...
Date: 11/14/2006
Disclaimer: Since I am talking about Orcas, and as of yet unreleased software, what follows is...
Date: 11/02/2006
MSBuild recognizes error messages and warnings that have been specially formatted by many command...
Date: 11/02/2006