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"Coding ... the boring bit between builds"

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

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