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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 4:10 AM

7 Steps to MSBuild

Brennan has a great post about all things MSBuild, and covers good breadth on both concepts, as well as the many things you may want to drive with MSBuild (unit testing, web deployment projects, etc). Check it out! [ Author : Faisal Mohamood ]
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:55 PM

/p property values are immutable - (sort of)....

Hello there - sorry for the long absence, but we're back and hopefully I'll keep this going again. So there was a recent forum post about how property values that are specified from the command line are immutable - i.e. it is not straightforward to change
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Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:01 PM

How To: Implementing Custom Tasks - Part I

While MSBuild is all about build customization,we never really blogged about what is involved in implementing custom tasks. Partly, I suppose that's because implementing a custom task is as easy as falling off a log most of the time: 1) Subclass Microsoft.Build.Utilities.Task
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:49 PM

How To: Customizing Project File Intellisense in Visual Studio

So Neil pointed out that you can find the MSBuild schemas in either the .NET Framework install path, as well as the Visual Studio install location. The one in the Framework folder ships as a reference (since MSBuild really is part of the .NET redist).
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Monday, November 07, 2005 10:58 PM

How To: Recursively Copy Files Using the <Copy> Task

Have you ever run into a situation where you had to recursively copy files from one folder into another as a part of your build process? We certainly have run into it a few times, and I thought I'd share with you a neat trick that involves the use of
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:43 PM

HOW TO: Beyond PreBuild and PostBuild Steps

Do you use PreBuild and PostBuild steps that are provided in the IDE? You will find that they are still available in Visual Studio 2005 - but from within the IDE, you only get the ability to run command line batch files / scripts. Essentially, prebuild
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:50 AM

Editing MSBuild project files in Visual Studio

Being able to edit your Visual Studio generated projects is one of the fundamental goals of MSBuild. Being able to edit your project file to customize and extend is not something that just happened to work :) MSBuild and Visual Studio 2005 were designed
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:40 AM

Cranking up the build verbosity in the IDE

We are often asked whether it's possible to crank up the build output verbosity when building inside the IDE....think building from the command line using msbuild /verbosity:Detailed or msbuild /v:Detailed Sure, it's possible, and we've made it dead simple
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