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7 Steps to MSBuild MSBuild is a powerful tool for automation but as the name implies, it is a tool primarily for compiling code. Beyond the initial build MSBuild can also be used in preparation for...
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Running MSBuild from Visual Studio
I make use of MSBuild on every project I develop. (see 7 Steps to MSBuild) What I have always wanted to do is run MSBuild from within Visual Studio like you can do with Ant scripts in the popular Java...
View ArticleReSharper Potential and Shortcomings
I have been reading Oren Eini's blog Ayende @ Rahien (great blog, by the way) and he recently mentioned a bug ReSharper that he wants resolved. The product has several bugs which irks me as well. It...
View ArticleSubSonic and Automation with MSBuild
SubSonic is a very useful project that you can use to generate a data access layer by reading your database schema. The command-line utility called SubCommander can generate the code in C# or VB.NET....
View ArticlePacker for .NET 3.0.2 Released
Packer for .NET has been updated to include an MSBuild Task in addition to the command-line functionality. See the documentation site to learn how to use the MSBuild Task. Packer for .NET Download...
View ArticleTidy up your Markup in .NET
Clean markup is important. If you allow a page to include sloppy markup it will switch from rendering in "Standards Compliance Mode" to "Quirks Mode" which will apply different rules to how the layout...
View ArticleWeb Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008
The new release for Visual Studio has been out for MSDN subscribers for a couple of weeks now and if you have tried it out you may have discovered that the Web Deployment Projects are only registered...
View ArticlePacker for .NET 4.0.1 Released
Packer for .NET has been updated to include a CSS Minify mode which does the same for CSS that JSMin does for JavaScript. Thanks for this addition goes to Chris Lienert who updated the open source...
View ArticlePacker for .NET 4.0.3 Released
Packer for .NET has been updated to provide an easy way to return the minified content directly for a web request. Until now the process of "minifying" content was done either on the command-line or...
View ArticlePacker for .NET 4.1 Released
Packer for .NET has been updated to version 4.1. A major new addition is a new MSBuild task called UpdateWebConfig which makes it easier to prepared your web.config file during deployment. There is...
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