Inside MSBuild

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Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi wrote an article for the June issue of MSDN Magazine on MSBuild, which is the build engine for Team Foundation Build. This article provides a good foundation on which to build your MSBuild knowledge, which will come in handy for extending Team Foundation Build.

In this article I will introduce you to MSBuild and show you how to use it to customize your builds. I will demonstrate how to use MSBuild from the command line and show you how you can replicate the same process that is used when your projects are built from the Visual Studio IDE.

From: Inside MSBuild: Compile Apps Your Way with Custom Tasks for the Microsoft Build Engine

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