PDC Session Highlight Of The Day #3

The PDC session highlight for today is a real oddball for the PDC:

Introducing MSBuild: The Universal Build Engine for Visual Studio "Whidbey" and "Longhorn"
Track: Tools and Languages   Code: TLS347
Room: Room 515AB   Time Slot: Mon, October 27 4:45 PM-6:00 PM
Speakers: Alex Kipman, Rajeev Goel
MSBuild is the next generation build engine that delivers scalability and flexibility for the entire range of build scenarios, from the basics to complex build-lab scenarios. Drill into the capabilities of this universal build engine for Visual Studio "Whidbey" and the "Longhorn" operating system--from its XML-based persistence model and human-readable file format, to its ability to assist in the creation of build steps and processes for Visual Studio projects.

I’ve been waiting for this build tool for a while now.  I’ve used Nant and BuildIT but neither really do things the way I wanted, and would have required compromises that I wasn’t willing to make.  Nant’s support for VSS was pretty slim, and although BuildIT handled VSS well, it required VS.Net to be installed on the build machine.  I was to get an early release of MSBuild for my current client back in the spring, but MS decided not to release it at that time.  MSBuild really seemed to be what I was looking for, and I was disappointed that I couldn't get my hands on it in the spring.  Given a couple more months of development I’m sure MSBuild is even better than what I heard about back in the then.

DonXML

2 Comments

  • hi don.

    I'de love tp go to this one, since I too miss a good tool like this, well if you are going then we'll have to catch up.

    I'm taking the indigo (WSV201)

  • Come one come all! I look forward to seeing you there and I hope not to disappoint :)



    I'm sorry getting MSBuild back in spring did not work out; we did very seriously consider it. Good news is that you will leave PDC with a copy of it :)

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