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MSBuild Task Factories: guest starring Windows Powershell

February 20, 2010 Feb 20, 2010 02/20/10
Andrew Arnott
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 ...

How to read/write the new Visual C++ project properties

January 14, 2010 Jan 14, 2010 01/14/10
Andrew Arnott
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...