MSBuild General FAQ

Question

I am excited to announce the availability of the following FAQ paper which lists some of the questions frequently asked by the MSBuild forum members. This paper has covered many parts of MSBuild from build customization to MSBuild extensibility via tasks, loggers and hosting. Although it’s far from complete, but this is the first attempt our forum support team has been trying to make to help development community members find the answers to their questions much easier and fast, and it’s always the top priority for our team to make the MSDN forum a good place for developers to ask questions, talk about technologies etc. With time goes on, this thread will be enhanced with more FAQs and content, so we really welcome and appreciate any feedback or suggestion on how to improve it.

 

Contents

 

1.      What’s the difference when compiling projects using Devenv, MSBuild and VCBuild?

2.      How do I use MSBuild to  build  Vdproj files (Setup Projects)?

3.      How do I set environment variables in MSBuild file?

4.      How do I parse a project file with XML?

5.      How do I determine dependency order for builds with MSBuild?

6.   How to Report a Bug in MSBuild

 

Answer 1

Not to sound rude but I'm just wondering, couldn't all of these be collected in a single thread as it's done on other FAQ in the forum?

I know probably I'm the only one who actually reads the official FAQs for forums but it will be easier if they were collected in a single post.

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Answer 2

I guess , you can report the same in FAQ of Microsoft ... into a single post and then provide a link to each