MSBuild
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio. (by dotnet)
Albacore
Albacore is a professional quality suite of Rake tasks for building .NET or Mono based systems. (by Albacore)
| MSBuild | Albacore | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | - | |
| 5,207 | 221 | |
| 0.5% | 0.0% | |
| 6.9 | 0.0 | |
| 4 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C# | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
MSBuild
Posts with mentions or reviews of MSBuild.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.
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Sharing Saturday #459
I did get confirmation that the actual kill has been postponed to .Net 9.0 rather than .Net 8.0 . However, that PR is factually wrong regarding when System.Runtime.Serialization use became opt-in -- I had to counter-adjust Rogue Survivor Revived to opt into using System.Runtime.Serialization for .Net 7.0, last November i.e. Nov 2022.
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Did anyone figure out a way to compile .NET Core with WPF on Linux?
Like this https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/blob/d0060335c1fb2f0523b1cf4656c464c5c4316783/src/Framework/NativeMethods.cs
- Why does Microsoft still insist on using XML for configuration files like `.csproj`, etc.?
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[Copilot has] been a massive productivity improvement to our senior devs, and I got so used to it that it's an annoyance when Copilot doesn't respond.
Here is a taste of what to expect: https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild
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Resources to learn the F# ecosystem
The main thing they do is to list projects so that you can open a solution and see a set of projects, or build a solution and build everything there. They also give a lot of customization and fortunately it's rare that you need to know anything about that. It does feel somewhat unnecessary since you should be able to open a project with its dependencies. Hopefully solution files are going to be cleaned up: https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/1730
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Build to order? Checking MSBuild for the second time
Since the previous check, the project has grown a lot. Our analyzer has become more advanced, too. This only makes this task more interesting! Despite the high quality of the MSBuild product and the well-known name of its creator, we again managed to find some issues in MSBuild's source code. The project is almost entirely written in C#. You can see it on GitHub. We took the code from this commit.
- Gauging broader interest in a .sln file generator based on a new DSL?
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New format for solution (.sln) files
relevant github issue: https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/1730
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How can I compile a C# program with a different version of glibc?
msbuild is the "make" system, but for .Net. Those .csproj files are just makefiles by another name. Also, msbuild is not Windows-only. The readme specifically states that it can run on Unix (and Unix-like) systems that support .Net Core.
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The most interesting C# / .NET blogs and websites
You can't do without source files when you want to better understand what is happening "under the hood" of a particular system. For example, do you want to improve your understanding of how types from the standard library work? The source code of .NET Framework and .NET will help you to do that. Do you want to dig deeper into the compiler? No problem - here is the Roslyn's source code at your service. Do you need to look inside the build system? Here you go - the MSBuild code is also open-source. By the way, if you are interested in build processes, you may also find MSBuild Structured Log Viewer useful. It's a tool that allows you to work with MSBuild build logs in a convenient format.
Albacore
Posts with mentions or reviews of Albacore.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Albacore yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MSBuild and Albacore you can also consider the following projects:
Cake - :cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
FlubuCore - A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code.
NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET
Roslyn - The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.
Nake - Magic script-based C# task runner for .NET Core
Psake - A build automation tool written in PowerShell
FAKE - FAKE - F# Make
Invoke-Build - Build Automation in PowerShell
CS Make - Sake Build