Debug your build with MSBuild Sidekick v2.3

Buck Hodges

March 30th, 20090 0

The folks at Attrice have released a new version of their MSBuild Sidekick, and it now includes a visual debugger for msbuild. If you’ve ever tried to debug a build process, you know how tedious it can be and will want to check this out.

MSBuild Sidekick v 2.3 is released

We are happy to announce the release of version 2.3 of MSBuild Sidekick!

Many of you would remember “How would you spend $100 on MSBuild?” poll published on MSBuild Team Blog. MSBuild users were asked to vote on most valuable future features in MSBuild; and while we could not improve MSBuild engine performance or add inline tasks support we did implement visual debugger for MSBuild! MSBuild Sidekick v2.3 is now the one-stop solution for all your debugging needs such as stepping through the build, inspecting locals and setting breakpoints.

The new features in MSBuild Sidekick v2.3 are:

Visual debugger (you can analyze build sequence using diagram) with breakpoints support and integrated Globals/Autos windows for viewing properties/items values during debugging

Customized editors and integrated online help for MSBuild Extension Pack tasks

Ability to cancel a running build

Ability to edit Project element raw XML

Auto-detection of latest .NET Framework on tool installation