Bunk and Rambling

One of the most exciting parts of Visual Studio 2005 from my perspective was the introduction of MSBuild. I am a firm believer in creating repeatable build processes, something that is not possible using an IDE alone. Microsoft has finally acknowledged this and created their own tool that borrows a lot from the Java based build tool, ANT.

One of the problems up until now has been the fact that MSBuild only targets .NET 2.0. This is no longer an issue with the release of MSBee. MSBee allows MSBuild files to target .NET 1.1 runtimes, bringing the benefits of MSBuild to those of us that have existing customers to support.

The Aus-dot-net mailing list has helped me discover pinvoke.net. Another valuable .NET resource worth bookmarking.