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Friday, January 06, 2006 11:03 PM

Post Summary: MSBuild in Visual Studio

For easy reference here's a list of all the MSBuild in Visual Studio posts we ran over the last couple of months. If you enjoyed this series please drop us a short note and let us know. Look for another series, this time on the internals of Microsoft.Common.Targets,
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 5:59 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 14: Managing Project Files

One last little interesting piece of information on how Visual Studio uses MSBuild relates to the loading of project files. Each project file loaded shares the same MSBuild Engine object within Visual Studio. In addition, when we find a project-to-project
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005 5:52 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 13: The Three Custom Loggers

We’re written in the past about how to write custom loggers , and you probably won’t be surprised to learn that Visual Studio makes use of custom loggers when interacting with MSBuild. There are three separate loggers, each with its own purpose. The project
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Saturday, November 19, 2005 6:56 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 12: Compiling Inside Visual Studio

We’ve touched briefly on how the Compile target is used by Visual Studio, but only on how it relates to Intellisense. Of course while Intellisense is nice, most people would like to actually compile a complete application using Visual Studio. If you’re
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:46 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 11: Other Special Targets

The last two entries walked through how the Compile target is used by the IDE to drive certain features. There are a number of other targets that get called at various times. Several targets exist to help compute project output groups, which are sets
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:50 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 10: What Does MSBuild Have To Do With Intellisense?

In our last post we started to dig into how the Compile target is used by Visual Studio at design time, and the details around the in-process compiler. When Rajeev was talking about the in-process vs. out-of-process compiler during the talk I must admit
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Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:50 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 9: Compiling at Design-Time Using the In-Process Compiler

All the posts so far in our series have talked about reading from and writing to project files. I hope you’ve found all that interesting, but today we’re going to shift gears a bit and start to talk about how Visual Studio leverages MSBuild during design-time.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:50 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 8: Writing Items To the Project File

Reading items from the project file, as we discussed in our last post , is quite straightforward and doesn’t have much in the way of interesting gotchas. Have no fear! We’ll make up for that with all the gotchas around writing items back. The first thing
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Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:41 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 7: Reading Items From the Project File

I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m pretty sick of escaping and properties [:)] It’s time to move on to the other major way the project system leverages MSBuild, and that’s the wonderful world of items. After all, without items there’d be no way
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:16 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 6: Quiz Answers, Round 2

If you’re joining us mid-stream, these are answers to a quiz on property escaping when saving properties back to the project file. Let’s pick up right where we left off in our last post. DisabledWarnings: Not escaped This is a great example of why we
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Monday, October 31, 2005 7:11 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 5: Quiz Answers, Round 1

Our last post included a short quiz on property escaping, and hopefully you found it somewhat entertaining. Since the answers to when and how we escape can get rather lengthy, the answers to the quiz are split across two posts. Let’s get right into part
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Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:09 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 4: A Quiz on Project Escaping

When we last posted everything was looking pretty straightforward. At this point we know how the project system reads and writes properties from the project file. What we haven't talked about is the mess involved in escaping property values. During the
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:03 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 3: How the IDE Writes Properties

In our last post we looked at how the project system uses MSBuild to read properties out of the project file. Now that we know how properties get into the project system, let’s take a look at how updated properties get pushed back to the project file.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:36 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 2: How the IDE Reads Properties

Many of the properties in an MSBuild project file show up directly within the Visual Studio environment. The most common place you’ll see the properties show up is in the project properties screen: How do these properties get from the MSBuild XML in the
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Monday, October 17, 2005 3:11 PM

MSBuild in Visual Studio Part 1: Loading and Saving Project Files

One of the questions we get asked on occasion is how well manual changes to project files round trip through Visual Studio. If you invest a ton of effort into manually tweaking your project file with new targets, it really wouldn’t be fun if opening it
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