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. Discover how to:

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 7, 2009

Reviews

[Daniel Schulte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Should really be a must read for anyone doing any work with c# or visual basic. You don't really have to understand a lot of it, but having a better idea of how projects get built is a wonderful feeling.

[Marcin · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was useful. Good background on the subject and although some parts were too simplistic overall the coverage of the key aspects is good. I might keep using it for a while as a handy reference.