MSBuild Extension Pack April 2011 Release - “If you MSBuild it, they will…”

Mike Fourie - MSBuild Extension Pack April 2011 Release

“The April 2011 release of the MSBuild Extension Pack is now available for download.

The April 2011 release contains

• version 3.5.9.0 for those using .Net 3.5
• version 4.0.3.0 for those using .Net 4.0

This release consolidates 40+ change sets and contains the following high level changes

• Around 20 new Tasks / TaskActions
• Around 19 improvements covering Documentation, new attributes and behaviour
• Around 5 bug fixes
• 32-bit and 64-bit installers
• Zero backwards compatibility breaks

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MSBuild Extension Pack - April 2011

“The MSBuild Extension Pack April 2011 release provides a collection of over 400 MSBuild tasks. A high level summary of what the tasks currently cover includes the following:

• System Items: Active Directory, Certificates, COM+, Console, Date and Time, Drives, Environment Variables, Event Logs, Files and Folders, FTP, GAC, Network, Performance Counters, Registry, Services, Sound
• Code: Assemblies, AsyncExec, CAB Files, Code Signing, DynamicExecute, File Detokenisation, GUID’s, Mathematics, Strings, Threads, Xml, Zip Files
• Applications: BizTalk 2006 / 2010, Email, IIS6, IIS7, MSBuild, SourceSafe, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, StyleCop, Twitter, Team Foundation Server, Visual Basic 6, Windows Virtual PC, WMI

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If you think you need to build your own MSBuild Extension, then think twice and check out this project… There’s a good chance that if you need it, Mike’s already built it (or at least something close…)

 

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