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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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Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:30

MSBuild 3.5 "Orcas" has now shipped

MSBuild 3.5 "Orcas" has now shipped. You can get the free download from here . It's included in the free Express Editions and of course Visual Studio 2008 itself. I'll blog about what's new in MSBuild 3.5 in due course, but the main features are: -- Multiprocessor
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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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