posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 6:05 AM by andrewwhitten

MSBuild with Visual Studio 2003 ?

I've resigned! This is great for me, but one of my duties was to maintain a basic build system for my company. I used 'Buildit', which is a build tool from Sapient which works half the time, but the other half has difficulties which will be fairly hard to explain when handing over. Since I have a week, I was wondering if I could somehow install the Beta of Visual Studio 2005, and build all the Visual Studio 2003 projects ( assemblies and setups ) with the MS Build tool? I tried Nant before, but since the source has to be brought back from Sourcesafe, it might take a while to configure correctly. I'm sure it can be done, it is just I really don't want to spend time on something I might not be able to complete... I really want to leave a positive impression on my old company. Well, if anyone has an answer or opinion, I would love to hear it!

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