MSBuild Property Functions (2)
Some more information about this 4.0 feature. (I’ve also updated the first post with this, so everything’s in one place for your reference.) Built-in MSBuild functions The full list of built-in...
View ArticleBuilding on Cross targeting scenarios and 64-bit MSBuild
During the Visual Studio 2010 development cycle a push to make the build experience better on Cross compilation scenarios as well on making sure a build using 32-bit MSBuild was identical (in outputs)...
View ArticleAssembly Resolution in MSBuild and Visual Studio Series Introduction
Assembly references are an integral part of build process. When the assembly references passed to the compiler are correct everything works but when they are not projects stop building. When this...
View ArticleBetter Parallelism in MSBuild 4 with YieldDuringToolExecution
Introduction In MSBuild 4 we introduced several performance improvements, particular for large interdependent builds. By and large they are automatic and you receive their benefit without making any...
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Debugging MSBuild script with Visual Studio
Back when we started 4.0 development, I polled readers of the MSBuild blog to find out what features were most important to them. Debugging was #1 which was very surprising to us. Thinking about it...
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Debugging MSBuild script with Visual Studio (2)
In my previous post, I showed how to enable the hidden Visual Studio debugger for MSBuild script, and demonstrated it by stepping through the evaluation of a C# project. In this post, I’ll keep...
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Debugging MSBuild script with Visual Studio (3)
In my last two posts (here and here) I showed how to enable the unsupported MSBuild debugger to debug a build started on the command line with MSBuild.exe. In this final post, I’ll mention some other...
View ArticleMSBuild Known Issues
Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 we have received a few reports of crashing behavior which can be traced back to issues with MSBuild. We’ve analyzed all of these and there are several...
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Incorrect solution build ordering when using MSBuild.exe
We’ve had a few reports of cases where Visual Studio, and previous versions of MSBuild, will build the projects in the solution in the correct order, but the 4.0 version of MSBuild.exe gets the order...
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Second edition of the MSBuild and Team Foundation Build book released
Not many books that are reviewed like this on Amazon: Now the heavily augmented second edition has just come out, written by several people at Microsoft and reviewed by the product team. New extensive...
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