Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build

by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew

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.
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Kindle Edition

First published November 30, 2009

Reviews

[Jake · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an awesome book on MSBuild. I was amazed at how complete it was.
I must admit that I only got the book to learn about MSBuild batching, (using % with item lists,) but i ended up reading every bit of it. Great examples matched by its great depth of such a complex technology. The author clearly knows his stuff. I would/will most definitely recommend this book.

[Gleb Sevruk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good starting point if you want to learn how MSBuild works