Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
by Mandatum on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @06:17PM
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Correct, VS commandline calls MSBuild. They're using MSBuild, they just don't know it.
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Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
by O____________O on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @07:28PM
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Correct, VS commandline calls MSBuild.
That seems like an inaccurate description of what's happening: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11932164/what-parameters-...
They're using MSBuild, they just don't know it.
Given the age of projects I've worked on, and that it's unclear whether MSBuild is involved in VS's C++ compilation, I don't think your assumption is correct.
Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
by Negitivefrags on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @07:59PM
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Visual Studio changed to using MSBuild for C++ at the time when the project file extension changed from "vcproj" to "vcxproj".
The change was explicitly to make it so that a C++ project file was an MSBuild script.
Visual Studio absolutely uses MSBuild for C++ projects.
Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
by rjblackman on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @10:13PM
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incorrect, the visual studio solution file has build configuration details that msbuild will not honour (e.g. you can specify certain build order parameters), as I found out recently with a project I took over. (I was wondering why building from the command line with ms build produced different results).