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Developer Reference

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Cover of Inside the Microsoft(r) Build Engine

Cover of Supplement to Inside the Microsoft Build Engine

Get the supplement that helps you drill even further into MSBuild—and maximize your control over the software build and deployment process. Designed as a companion to the popular book Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition, this supplement extends your knowledge by covering what’s new in Visual Studio 2012 for MSBuild and Team Foundation Build. You’ll also gain a fresh cookbook of examples to help you get productive with UI changes, batching, Team Foundation Server, offline apps, database publishing, and other essential topics.

  • Extends your knowledge of MSBuild with all-new coverage of Visual Studio 2012
  • Shares additional hands-on insights and guidance from two expert authors
  • Provides a cookbook of examples to study and reuse

Cover of Inside the Microsoft Build Engine

As software complexity increases, proper build practices become ever more important. This essential reference drills inside MSBuild—and shows how to maximize your control over the build and deployment process. Learn how to customize and extend build processes with MSBuild—and scale them to the team, product, or enterprise level with Team Foundation Build.

Discover how to:

  • Create and modify MSBuild files—outside the Visual Studio IDE
  • Use XML-based syntax to declare dynamic properties and items
  • Apply built-in tasks or write your own
  • Customize the build process—adding code generation, unit testing, or code analysis

  • Use batching and incremental builds to reduce build times
  • Invoke external tools in scripts and create reusable files
  • Start and stop services
  • Set assembly versions and extend the clean process
  • Configure, customize, and extend Team Build—and automate build from end to end

Cover of Supplement to Inside the Microsoft Build Engine
Get the supplement that helps you drill even further into MSBuild—and maximize your control over the software build and deployment process. Designed as a companion to the popular book Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition, this supplement extends your knowledge by covering what’s new in Visual Studio 2012 for MSBuild and Team Foundation Build. You’ll also gain a fresh cookbook of examples to help you get productive with UI changes, batching, Team Foundation Server, offline apps, database publishing, and other essential topics.





Extends your knowledge of MSBuild with all-new coverage of Visual Studio 2012
Shares additional hands-on insights and guidance from two expert authors
Provides a cookbook of examples to study and reuse