47.6. Summary

The default build behavior can be customized with an enormous range of options in Visual Studio 2008, particularly for Visual Basic and C# projects because they're based on the MSBuild engine. Within the project file you can include additional actions to perform both before and after the build has taken place, as well as include additional files in the compilation.

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