Building ARM assembly source from within VS 2005

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This is a little bit ugly, but it does the job. An unfortunate side effect of this build rule is that you end up deploying the .obj produced, because it becomes a project output, but I did this in twenty minutes while investigating another bug. Paste this into a file, name it "armasm.rules". Right click on the project, click "Custom Build Rules", from this dialog, choose "Find Existing..." Enjoy!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<VisualStudioToolFile Name="Arm ASM" Version="8.00">
   <Rules>
      <CustomBuildRule
         Name="Arm asm" DisplayName="Arm asm"
         CommandLine="armasm -o &quot;$(IntDir)\$(InputName).obj&quot; [$Inputs] "
         Outputs="$(IntDir)\$(InputName).obj"
         FileExtensions="*.asm"
         ExecutionDescription="Executing tool..."
      >
      <Properties></Properties>
</CustomBuildRule>
   </Rules>
</VisualStudioToolFile>