VS Project Team Blog

VS Project Blog Moving

We aren’t going away -- we’re just moving to a better home. To give you even more news, articles,...

Author: Brian Tyler Date: 11/03/2009

Minify your EmbeddedResource .js and .css files in your MSBuild project

If you write a C# or VB.NET class library that contains ASP.NET controls that also have .js or .css...

Author: Andrew L Arnott Date: 10/08/2009

Microsoft Development Tools Ecosystem Summit

If there is one thing Microsoft is really good at, it is creating really long names for things :)...

Author: Brian Tyler Date: 08/26/2009

We're Still Here!

Sorry for our absence in the last couple of weeks - we've had some internal deadlines to hit and so...

Author: Brian Tyler Date: 08/11/2009

Enable C++ project system logging

Update (7 June 2012): Instructions when using Visual Studio 2012 The new Visual C++ project system...

Author: Andrew L Arnott Date: 07/20/2009

VC++ Directories

The goal of this post is to quickly explain what VC++ Directories are, what happened to them in VS...

Author: Brian Tyler Date: 07/07/2009

Insights into the VC++ Project System (Channel 9 Video)

Bogdan Mihalcea is a developer on the VC++ build and project system team and he's been working on...

Author: Brian Tyler Date: 06/20/2009

Platform extensibility - Part 2

In my previous blog post on platform extensibility, I introduced you to the data-driven nature of...

Author: Pavan Adharapurapu Date: 06/18/2009

Platform Extensibility - Part 1

Have you ever wanted to write a custom tool (like a custom parser or a compiler) and add it to the...

Author: Pavan Adharapurapu Date: 06/09/2009

MSBuild Syntax and the IDE

Changing over to MSBuild as the project file format and build engine has some subtle changes. I just...

Author: Brian Tyler Date: 05/31/2009

Hello and Welcome

Hi! My name is Brian Tyler and I'm the technical lead for the VS Project Team here at Microsoft. Our...

Author: Brian Tyler Date: 05/27/2009