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Second edition of the MSBuild and Team Foundation Build book released

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Not many books that are reviewed like this on Amazon:

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Now the heavily augmented second edition has just come out, written by several people at Microsoft and reviewed by the product team.

  • New extensive coverage of building C++ with MSBuild
  • Complete rewrite of the Team Build sections to cover the new Windows Workflow Foundation build orchestration
  • Detail on new MSBuild 4.0 features like inline tasks, and item and property functions.

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If you need a reference to Team Build or MSBuild, you should get it.

-- Dan,VS Solution/Project/Build dev lead

Update: Here's a link to the book on Amazon

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2012
    How do I download/install MSBuild? I can't find a download link anywhere. Is it part of Visual Studio? Is the executable name "msbuild.exe"? Which directory does it appear in after installation? Does the installer automatically add it to PATH, or do I have to do it manually?

  • Anonymous
    December 30, 2012
    Andrew MSBuild comes with visual studio.

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2013
    @Chris, @Andrew actually no, MSBuild comes with the .Net framework

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2015
    @Koen: Well, now it comes with Visual Studio.