MSBuild wiki

Buck Hodges

In addition to the MSBuild documentation on MSDN and the MSBuild team blog, there is an MSBuild wiki on Channel9.  I had seen it before, but forgotten about it until I saw it mentioned in one of Chris Sells’ old blog posts (My First MsBuild Task).

Here’s the current table of contents for the wiki.

Frequently Asked Questions

• General
• Project File Format
• Shipping Tasks
• Loggers
• Tasks
• VS / MSBuild Integration
• Conversion
• MSBuild.exe Command Line
• Object Model
• Scenarios
• Does Microsoft use MSBuild to build its own products?
• How to execute CS templates from MSBuild?

External Links and Resources

Quick Start Tutorials

• Write a simple project
• Clean my Build
• Specify which Target to Build First
• Build All Files in a Directory
• Build All Files in a Directory Except One
• Build the Same Sources with Different Options
• Use Environment Variables in a Build
• Check whether an Environment Variable has been set
• Build a Project with Resources
• Build Incrementally
• Use the Same Target in Multiple Project Files
• Tell MSBuild to Ignore Errors in Tasks
• Extend MSBuild with a New Task
• Build a Set of Dependant Projects
• Run a Custom Tool From my Project
• Specify Several Build Options on the Command Line
• Use Reserved XML Characters in Project Files
• Display an Item List Separated with Commas
• Convert an Item List into a scalar string
• Reference the Name or Location of the Project File in the Project File
• How do I do a recursive copy?
• Batching Examples

MSBuild Specifications

• How the batching algorithm works
• How to find targets files in a canonical place

MSBuild Community Wish List

Buck Hodges Director of Engineering, Azure

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