Get Inside the Microsoft Build Engine
by Inessa.b
Great news for those of you, who watch closely MSBuild and Team Foundation Server updates: a new book on MSBuild and TFS was just published by William Bartholomew, developer productivity specialist in South Brisbane Area, Australia, and Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, a developer and architect in Jacksonville, Florida.
According to the author, if you have never worked with MSBuild, this book is perfect for you, as it can tell about the basics of MSBuild (and if you use Visual Studio 2005 or greater, you use MSBuild anyway), and teach you how to optimize and personalize MSBuild. If you are not new to it or you use TFS Build on top of MSBuild, you’ll definitely learn more. Besides, the edition provides a whole range of examples on Web deployment, automated releases, and other essential topics.
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The full name of the book is “Inside the Microsoft® Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (PRO-Developer)”, and it is already available at amazon.com, even with a gift-wrap





