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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:57 PM

How To: Remove the Up-To-Date Check From the AssemblyInfoTask

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't do
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Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:56 AM

Beta 2 of the MSBuild Toolkit for .NET Framework v1.1 is Out!

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 2.0 specific
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Friday, March 24, 2006 2:53 AM

New Feature Feedback Request: /IgnoreProjectExtensions - A new command-line switch

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 switch
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:07 AM

What Does MSBuild Have to do With The Future of Game Development?

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
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Friday, March 10, 2006 11:06 PM

How To: Bypass Post-Build Steps in a Build Lab Environment

(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 file that
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:01 PM

Why Doesn't Delete Take Wildcards?

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. I can
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:38 PM

How To: Distribute Your Custom Task and .Targets file

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 of
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:30 PM

MSBuild.GlobalEngine vs "new Engine()": What's the Difference?

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 do this. Thankfully
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:56 PM

How To: Exclude Multiple Files From a Wildcard

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 from our
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