MSBuild resources

MSBuild Resources

• Official docs: MSBuild MSDN portal, MSBuild Reference, MSBuild Support forums
• Blogs of note: MSBuild Team blog , Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi’s blog , Mike Fourie’s blog .
• Task libraries: MSBuild Extension Pack
• GUI editors: MSBuild Sidekick 

Note: do not rely on Channel 9 MSBuild wiki – the resource is outdated and not maintained

MSBuild 4.0 Resources

• Multi-targeting – now for .Net 4.0! 
• Target dependency injection (BeforeTargets & AfterTargets elements)
• New command-line switches: new command line switches, performance summary, displaying target outputs (all command line switches at MSDN)
• Inline tasks (explained at Sayed’s blog - part 1 and part 2)
• Item functions
• Property functions (explained in MSBuild Team blog)
• MSBuild Visual C++ support: MSDN VC++ portal, MSBuild at VC++ blog, using parallel build for VC++
• New MSBuild Object Model – Microsoft.Build.XXX namespaces at here
• Updated and new tasks: tasks reference (for example, updated Copy task, added XmlPeek/XmlPoke tasks) 
• Misc new elements: ImportGroup element, Returns Target attribute