The VC++ build system is of course MSBuild based in VS 2010. This automatically gives you a great deal more flexibility to customize your build than you had with .vcproj project files in prior releases. We went out of our way to ensure that the .targets files that drive the build of a .vcxproj file in VS 2010 leverage as much ...
One of the cool new features of MSBuild 4.0 is the extensible task factory. Task factories allow you to include scripts directly in your project file (or an imported .targets file) and have those scripts parsed and executed by your favorite interpreter. Those scripts might even be C# or VB.NET code snippets that get compiled into ...
Visual C++ 2010 introduces several new project and tool properties, and deprecates some old ones. If you’re writing a project template or Visual Studio extension that needs to programmatically read and write the new properties, you will find that these properties are not available on the standard VCConfiguration, VCCLCompilerTool, etc. set...
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