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Monday, January 07, 2008 8:58 PM

Article in .NET Developer's Journal

There's a new article by Xin Yan and myself published in the .NET Developer's Journal. We cover MSBuild from scratch, but also the new file format features in .NET 3.5 and our plans for the future. Check it out. Dan
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Monday, December 03, 2007 6:00 PM

More tools...

Two new MSBuild community tools to check out! Eugene from Attrice has blogged about the Visualization support in the new edition of MSBuild SideKick. (There's also another pretty visualizer on CodePlex .) Partho pointed me at a debugger he's created.
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Saturday, November 17, 2007 6:43 PM

How would you spend $100 on MSBuild?

We're currently planning for our next version (aka, "Dev10" - no code name this time) and subsequent releases. In that spirit, I'd like to do a quick poll of MSBuild aficionados to help us keep our "vision" for MSBuild aligned with yours, our customers.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:35 PM

What are Targets, Tasks, and Tools?

I've heard these confused in the context of MSBuild, so let's talk a little about what they are: * A TARGET is a grouping of tasks (often 1) designed to do a particular job. For example, a Link target would be designed to produce a final binary from object
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Monday, October 22, 2007 12:29 AM

Enabling multiprocessor support in an MSBuild host

As you know, MSBuild in .NET 3.5 adds support for building projects concurrently. MSBuild.exe exposes this support with the new /m switch , and because Team Build uses MSBuild to build projects, it will get a speed up as well. In this release, Visual
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Friday, October 19, 2007 7:34 PM

Manifest resource names changed for .resources files

Juergen Bayer notified us of an issue introduced in MSBuild in .NET 3.5 "Orcas". The problem is if you have any items of type EmbeddedResource in your project file that are actually .resources format, rather than the usual .resx. In other words, for some
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Friday, October 19, 2007 6:04 PM

Using MSBuild as a generic scripting language

I just got a pretty interesting mail from Dave Hickey at Premera, describing how his team is using MSBuild as a generic scripting language: We thought you might be interested in how we use MSBuild here. Sure, we use it for compiling our .NET projects,
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:57 PM

Multitargeting against .NET 2.0

If you're using the new VS 2008 multitargeting features to target .NET 2.0 you should be aware that in VS 2008 they have a limitation related to service packs. In .NET 2.0 SP1, the CLR team has added a few types to existing .NET 2.0 assemblies. For example,
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Friday, April 13, 2007 7:22 PM

Recursion, and ItemGroups inside Targets

Greetings MSBuilders! An internal team (Office Live, I think) asked us how to make their build start up faster. Their traversal project at the root of their tree started like this: <Project xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003
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Friday, April 13, 2007 6:35 PM

Window tab management in Visual Studio

Greetings MSBuilders! The way in which Visual Studio inserts and drops document tabs arouses passions in some people - myself included. So much so that I’m going to post about it, even though it doesn’t have anything to do with MSBuild! Currently, when
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