MSBuild: Your Comprehensive Guide

Unleashing the Power of MSBuild

What is MSBuild?

MSBuild is the robust build platform for .NET and Visual Studio. It offers a comprehensive range of capabilities for building, testing, debugging, and contributing to projects. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, MSBuild provides an indispensable toolkit for streamlining your development workflow.

Features and Benefits:

• Build projects and solutions with ease using switches and arguments.


• Run specific targets without building the entire project using dotnet build.


• Access the latest and previous versions of MSBuild on GitHub.

Getting Started:

• Learn how to use MSBuild to build projects and solutions.


• Understand the basics of productbuild versioning with MSBuild.


• Build releases from the command line on machines without Visual Studio.


• Find resources for building, testing, and contributing to projects with MSBuild.

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