Visual C++ Build System

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Hi All,

I am Amit Mohindra, a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team. We have devised a set of walkthroughs for you in this Visual Studio 10 release. Please use the walkthroughs as a hand-held guide to use this release. You can use the Connect website to report bugs.

This forum will cover the build System Walkthroughs:

Walkthrough: Using MSBuild to Create a Visual C++ Project    

This walkthrough shows you how to create the C++ source files for your project, create the MSBuild project file and how to use MSBuild to build your C++ projects.

How to: Add a Build Event to an MSBuild Project
This walkthrough shows how to add pre-build, post-build and pre-link event to your build process. This walkthrough also helps with excluding a build event from a particular configuration

How to: Add a Custom Build Step to an MSBuild Project
This walkthrough guides you through the process of adding custom build steps to your build environment.A custom build step is a user-defined command that executes between two user-specified points in the build.You specify the command line to execute, the input and output files for that command, and a message to display when the command executes.

How to: Add Custom Build Tools to an MSBuild Project
This walkthrough guides you through the process of adding custom build steps to your build environment.Custom build tools are user-defined commands that execute between two user-specified points in the build.Unlike a custom build step, which is a single command that uses a single set of input files, custom build tools operate on multiple input files and can specify a different command for each file.

How to: Create a Project-to-Project Reference
This how-to topic demonstrates how to create a project-to-project reference in a Visual C++ project that uses the MSBuild build system. A project-to-project reference defines dependencies among Visual C++ projects, which is useful when you have a project whose inputs are dependent on the outputs of another.

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Thanks,

Amit Mohindra
Visual C++ Team