Articles filed in category 'MsBuild'

Visual Studio 2015: Ushering in a New Paradigm

By: Jeffrey Palermo (Clear Measure)

Last updated: Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2015 - November/December

You’re going to have to hold onto your hat! Jeffrey looks at what’s new in VS 2015, and it’s all good.

• .NET 4.0
• .NET 4.5
• .NET Assemblies
• .NET Framework
• .NET Getting Started
• Debugger
• MsBuild
• MSTest
• Visual Studio .NET
• Visual Studio 2015

Building .NET Systems with Ruby, Rake and Albacore

By: Derick Bailey

Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - May/June

Automated build tools have been around for a long time.Many of the early tools were simple batch scripts that made calls out to other command-line tools like compilers and linkers. As the need for more and more complexity in the build scripts was realized, specialized tools like Make were introduced. These tools offered more than just sequential processing of commands. They provided some logic and decision making as well as coordination of the various parts of the build process. Since Make was first introduced, many variations and specialized versions have been introduced for various languages and platforms. Rake - the “Ruby Make” system - may not have much more than its namesake to claim a connection to Make, but it is a build tool that is quickly growing in popularity and providing .NET developers with new options.

• ClickOnce
• Development Process
• Iron Ruby
• MsBuild
• Rake
• Testing and Quality Control