MSBuild Extension Pack

MSBuild Extension Pack is a new CodePlex project which is the successor to the FreeToDev MSBuild Tasks Suite and provides a collection of over 170 MSBuild tasks designed for the .Net 3.5 Framework.

It includes the following tasks:

• System Items:
  Certificates, COM+, Console, Date and Time, Drives, Environment Variables, Event Logs, Files and Folders, GAC, Network, Performance Counters, Registry, Services, Sound
• Code:
  Assemblies, CAB Files, Code Signing, File Detokenisation, GUID’s, Mathematics, Strings, Threads, Zip
• Applications:
  BizTalk 2006, Email, IIS7, MSBuild, SourceSafe, StyleCop, Team Foundation Server, Visual Basic 6, WMI

Each task is documented and provided with an example in the help file. Where applicable, tasks are remote enabled, simply specify a MachineName and the task will target the remote machine.

Team Foundation Build Recipes

Grant Holiday, Team System MVP has came out with a wonderful site, Team Foundation Build Recipes.

As a Build Master you've been put in charge of coming up with a central build system for your team. It can be quite daunting at first and you wonder "Where do I start?".

The purpose of this site is to create and share build recipes with other build masters so that we can all learn and benefit from each other's experience.

Since the site is called TFSBuild.com, there is a particular focus on MSBuild and Team Foundation Build scripts. But if you have a NAnt script or similar that you think others might find useful post it up.

The site is published as a wiki and the idea is that anybody can register to add & update content.

Thanks Grant for the great addition.