Is there a good tutorial on MSBuild scripts? [closed]

Answer 1

I found this MSBuild tutorial by Patrick Smacchia to be very informative (though I read it as a non-beginner)

Also Best Practices for Creating Reusable Builds, Part 1 from MSDN Magazine by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi and part 2

(And I +1'd the Brennan tutorial)

Answer 2

I wasted a lot of time before buying the Hashimi MSBuild book, fantastic -- I concur with this review by Steven St Jean.

In addition to an excellent all-round introduction to MSBuild scripting, it has a cookbook section on doing typical build automation thigns like build numbers etc. Obviously the last TeamBuild section will not be directly relevant for you, but a lot of the topics are generic across all CI tools.

UPDATE: The 2nd ed keeps up the trend, adding a must-have section re WebDeploy

Answer 3

I'm looking for info on this subject myself too.

This is a nice article, Versioning Builds with TFS and MSBuild.

I posted a Stackoverflow answer here to a related question, where I also mention this great episode on DnrTV, Sayed Hashimi on MS Build.