Is it worth learning to use MSBuild?

Question

I simply wondered whether people thought it was worth learning to use the MSBuild syntax in order to customise the build process for a .net project, or whether it is really not

Answer 1

If you develop in .net workshop, It does worth learning.
I have integrated our build process with Jenkins - originally Hudson. As it mentioned above, MSbuild has steep learning curve.However once you grasp the fundamentals, you can start customizing the build. my impression so far - could be naive, bulk of the script is consisted of

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    Besides using for build, I successfully used MSBuild to create a module that manages
    configuration files such as web.config and foo.exe.config files. 
    it is a hybrid module that consists of .net console app, MSBuild script and batch file.
    what this module does is that during a project upgrade, it will create a XML transform       
    template with connection strings, endpoints and appSettings from old configuration
    files. 
    after the project has been upgraded, the module will transform newly deployed  
    configuration
    files without affecting any new entries. if you have dozens of configuration files this  
    is very effective.