{"id":783,"date":"2011-02-13T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2011\/02\/13\/the-book-to-buy-on-team-build-using-msbuild-and-team-foundation-build-second-edition\/"},"modified":"2011-02-13T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:59:11","slug":"the-book-to-buy-on-team-build-using-msbuild-and-team-foundation-build-second-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/the-book-to-buy-on-team-build-using-msbuild-and-team-foundation-build-second-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The book to buy on team build: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are responsible for work with your team\u2019s build system, you will definitely want to buy a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Inside-Microsoft-Build-Engine-Foundation\/dp\/0735645248\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1294270965&amp;sr=8-2\">Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build<\/a> (Second Edition).&#160; Both of the authors now work for Microsoft.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willbar\/\">William Bartholomew<\/a> is part of the central engineering team and has been building the infrastructure to allow Team Foundation Build to be used as the build system for all of the developer division.&#160; You can follow that progress and find more info on team build on his <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willbar\/\">blog<\/a>.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sedodream.com\/\">Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi<\/a> works on the web platform team, and he writes a lot about building web projects on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sedodream.com\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This second edition contains extensive coverage of build in Team Foundation Server 2010, which introduced Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) as the new build process orchestration mechanism.&#160; WF provides a fantastic platform for your build process needs, and this book helps you get over the learning curve and become productive faster.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend it, and the reviews on Amazon are further testimony to how valuable this book is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Inside-Microsoft-Build-Engine-Foundation\/dp\/0735645248\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1294270965&amp;sr=8-2\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2019\/03\/5148.image_thumb_4538C22A.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;float: none;padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8514efd3-aa4f-4179-a71e-5a00bc47a694\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/team+foundation+server\" rel=\"tag\">team foundation server<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/team+build\" rel=\"tag\">team build<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/msbuild\" rel=\"tag\">msbuild<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are responsible for work with your team\u2019s build system, you will definitely want to buy a copy of Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (Second Edition).&#160; 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