Where Does This Leave MSBuild?
It seems fitting to conclude by answering the question, is MSBuild obsolete? Does moving to Windows Workflow Foundation make MSBuild redundant? The answer is an emphatic no for a few reasons:
Visual Studio project files are (and will be for the foreseeable future) based on MSBuild.
MSBuild is an ideal way to describe projects, how they should be compiled, and operations to be performed on sets of files.
MSBuild is very flexible and an effective method for small teams to describe single machine build processes.
Team Build and Windows Workflow Foundation pick up where MSBuild leaves off, providing the ability to describe and manage complex, distributed, integrated, build processes. But when it comes to building individual ...
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