Chapter 51. Advanced Compilations with MSBuild
In your developer life you have probably worked at least once with mixed solutions, composed by both Visual Basic and Visual C# projects because this is not an uncommon situation in .NET development, or simply with solutions made of application projects and deployment projects. But while you know how the Visual Basic and C# compilers work, did you ever wonder how Visual Studio builds executables from mixed solutions? The answer is the MSBuild.exe, the build engine from Microsoft that this chapter discusses.
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