One of the most important stuff in a project build, is the ability to mark the assemblies with unique numbers that permits us to reproduce the build. Tfs does not have a standard way of doing this, but with a couple of MsBuild actions it is really simple to overcome this limitation. This is a [...]
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Msbuild is microsoft build engine, and I showed some time ago how you can write a custom task to post in twitter the outcome of a build result. Now it is time to give a greater focus on how to write a good task.
Creating a Task is a simple matter of inheriting from the [...]
You can find at this link, a table that compare nant tasks with msbuild tasks. If you look at this table it seems that msbuild lacks a lot of things, but actually there are specific visual studio tasks that have no equivalent in nant, like those one for tfs (open issue etc), publishing with clickonce, [...]
