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    Buck Hodges

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    MSBuild Archives | Buck Hodges

    A tool to find duplicate copies in a build
    A tool to find duplicate copies in a build
    Avatar Buck Hodges January 21, 2012 Jan 21, 2012 01/21/12
    As part of our builds, quite a few projects copy files to the binaries directory or other locations.  These can be anything from image files to test scripts.  To have our builds complete more quickly, we use the multi-process option (/maxcpucount) of msbuild to build projects in parallel. This all sounds normal, so what’s the ...

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    The book to buy on team build: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition
    The book to buy on team build: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition
    Avatar Buck Hodges February 13, 2011 Feb 13, 2011 02/13/11
    If you are responsible for work with your team’s build system, you will definitely want to buy a copy of Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (Second Edition).  Both of the authors now work for Microsoft.  William Bartholomew is part of the central engineering team and has been building the ...

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    How to use the MSBuild debugger in Visual Studio 2010
    How to use the MSBuild debugger in Visual Studio 2010
    Avatar Buck Hodges July 17, 2010 Jul 17, 2010 07/17/10
    Dan Moseley, dev lead for msbuild, wrote a debugger for msbuild while on leave(!) back during the 2010 cycle.  While it ultimately couldn’t be fully completed and tested to be an official feature, it is in the product with a switch to enable it (it’s off by default).  This was a conscious decision made by the VS team, and...

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    Debug your build with MSBuild Sidekick v2.3
    Debug your build with MSBuild Sidekick v2.3
    Avatar Buck Hodges March 30, 2009 Mar 30, 2009 03/30/09
    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 ...

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    New book on MSBuild and Team Foundation Build
    New book on MSBuild and Team Foundation Build
    Avatar Buck Hodges February 6, 2009 Feb 6, 2009 02/6/09
    There is now a book dedicated to MSBuild and Team Foundation Build.  The book is written by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi and William Bartholomew.  Sayed has written about MSBuild before, both in books and MSDN Magazine articles, and William is a Team System MVP with a lot of experience in customizing the build process in Team Foundation.If ...

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    Using Team Foundation Build with BizTalk and SSIS projects
    Using Team Foundation Build with BizTalk and SSIS projects
    Avatar Buck Hodges October 23, 2008 Oct 23, 2008 10/23/08
    Unfortunately there are several types of projects that do not work natively with MSBuild.  Jim Lamb, program manager for Team Build, has put together a few posts with pointers on how to get these to work with Team Build. Technorati Tags: team foundation server,team build,biztalk,sql ssis,msbuild...

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    MSBuild Extensions Pack now available
    MSBuild Extensions Pack now available
    Avatar Buck Hodges October 19, 2008 Oct 19, 2008 10/19/08
    Mike Fourie has released the first version of MSBuild Extensions Pack on CodePlex.  This is a great collection of quality tasks for MSBuild that you can also use in Team Foundation Build. The MSBuild Extension Pack is the successor to the FreeToDev MSBuild Tasks Suite and provides a collection of over 170 MSBuild tasks designed for the...

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    Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008 recording is now available
    Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008 recording is now available
    Avatar Buck Hodges August 28, 2008 Aug 28, 2008 08/28/08
    Charles Sterling announced a new interactive forum called MVP TV earlier this month.  The first event was Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008.  Now the recording for this event is available. The debut of MVP TV Attendance: 92 attendees Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | 9:00am – 10:00am (PDT, Redmond time...

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    MSBuild project analysis tool: BuildCop
    MSBuild project analysis tool: BuildCop
    Avatar Buck Hodges March 18, 2008 Mar 18, 2008 03/18/08
    Jelle Druyts has created an interesting tool and made it available on CodePlex. Just Released: BuildCop v1.0! It is with great pleasure that I'm finally ready to release another open source tool on CodePlex: BuildCop. BuildCop is a tool that analyzes MSBuild project files (interactively or during e.g. a daily build) according to a ...

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    MSBuild by Example
    MSBuild by Example
    Avatar Buck Hodges February 5, 2008 Feb 5, 2008 02/5/08
    Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi's book, Deploying .NET Applications, contains a chapter on MSBuild.  While I knew about the chapter in the book, I didn't realize that the chapter on MSBuild was available online until Eugene Zakhareyev mentioned it. If you are looking for a good way to get started with MSBuild, MSBuild: By Example is a good place ...

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