{"id":1173,"date":"2009-03-30T12:58:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T12:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2009\/03\/30\/debug-your-build-with-msbuild-sidekick-v2-3\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T12:58:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T12:58:53","slug":"debug-your-build-with-msbuild-sidekick-v2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/debug-your-build-with-msbuild-sidekick-v2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Debug your build with MSBuild Sidekick v2.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attrice.info\/index.htm\">Attrice<\/a> have released a new version of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attrice.info\/msbuild\">MSBuild Sidekick<\/a>, and it now includes a visual debugger for msbuild.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve ever tried to debug a build process, you know how tedious it can be and will want to check this out.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attrice.info\/blog\/2009\/03\/14\/msbuild-sidekick-v-23-is-released\/\" name=\"msbuild2\"><strong>MSBuild Sidekick v 2.3 is released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are happy to announce the release of version 2.3 of MSBuild Sidekick!<\/p>\n<p>Many of you would remember &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/msbuild\/archive\/2007\/11\/30\/response-to-the-feature-poll.aspx\">How would you spend $100 on MSBuild?<\/a>&rdquo; 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.<\/p>\n<p>The new features in MSBuild Sidekick v2.3 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Visual debugger<\/strong> (you can analyze build sequence using diagram) with breakpoints support and integrated Globals\/Autos windows for viewing properties\/items values during debugging <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attrice.info\/images\/msbuild\/sidekick_debug_breakpoints.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.attrice.info\/images\/msbuild\/sidekick_debug_breakpoints_small.gif\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attrice.info\/images\/msbuild\/sidekick_debug_globals.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.attrice.info\/images\/msbuild\/sidekick_debug_globals_small.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Customized editors<\/strong> and <strong>integrated<\/strong> online help for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/MSBuildExtensionPack\"><strong>MSBuild Extension Pack<\/strong><\/a> tasks <\/li>\n<li>Ability to <strong>cancel a running build<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ability to <strong>edit Project element<\/strong> raw XML <\/li>\n<li>Auto-detection of latest .NET Framework on tool installation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;float: none;padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1fb03bc3-bf33-4069-89e5-19c77a31598a\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/msbuild\" rel=\"tag\">msbuild<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Attrice have released a new version of their MSBuild Sidekick, and it now includes a visual debugger for msbuild.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve ever tried to debug a build process, you know how tedious it can be and will want to check this out. 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