MSBuild

After 3 days of non stop coding the hackathon participants are ready to show off their hard work. This video showcases the top finalists and announces the winner- what an amazing group of developers creating magic in 72 hours. Enjoy!

After speaking with some of the most influential developers around we decided to grab some BUILD attendees and asked them to share why they love what they do.

Imagine you want to create a library that supports different versions of .NET.  Of course there are multiple ways to do this but this is the technique that I have adopted for my CodePlex projects.  In this episode I'll show you the sample project I used to test out my targets files and how…

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow In this episode: Check out the new information marketplace for producer and consumers called Codename "Dallas" Find a PowerShell…

There is more to building an application than pressing F5. MSBuild comes with the .NET Framework and is extensible. See how Microsoft MVP Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi extends the build process programmatically, by talking to Twitter upon a successful build. This is an incredible demo. Consistency is…

Bogdan Mihalcea is a developer on the VC++ build and project system team. He and team have been very busy rewriting the VC++ build system in order to take advantage of MSBuild, which is Visual Studio's build system. MSBuild is completely transparent with  regards…

Let me give you a very brief introduction to MSBuild. In MSBuild terminology, build steps are called "targets." We will define three common targets initially: Clean, Init, and Compile. You can create other targets to automate other common tasks such as running tests, creating installer…

Creating an Automated Build Script In creating a build script, we want to automate common tasks for building the project source code as much as possible. Whether you know it or not, you are already using build scripts. When you create a new project, Visual Studio creates a build script for  that…

In this video, you will find tools to help solve these common developer challenges… Maintaining the truth and privacy of your data while making changes to the schema Another report project? Setting up a virtual playground for testing and development Building a web site from scratch in minutes…

In this episode of geekSpeak, Steven Borg shares the merits of using Team Build 2008 to radically improve the quality of the code you write. Steven gives a great overview of how to set up automated builds and a build server, and the benefits of investing the time to do it right. Steven also…