MSBuild
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio. (by dotnet)
Psake
A build automation tool written in PowerShell (by psake)
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MSBuild | Psake | |
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19 | 5 | |
5,126 | 1,536 | |
0.7% | 0.8% | |
6.9 | 0.0 | |
6 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
C# | PowerShell | |
MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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
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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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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.
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OWASP Top Ten and Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
At the moment, we plan to implement the specified functionality for the C# analyzer. It's easy to obtain the list of dependencies for a C# project. Roslyn helps us a lot — our analyzer is built on its base. To be more precise, the main factor is the use of the same build platform (MSBuild) and a compiler for all C# projects. At the same time Roslyn is closely related to MSBuild. This makes obtaining the dependencies list trivial.
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Standard File/Project Structure?
https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild is up there too.
Psake
Posts with mentions or reviews of Psake.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-08.
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Achieving single command Infrastructure deployment using PowerShell DSC.
You may use other tools too: psake, make, cake, fake or any other *ake you are familiar with. I look at them as a tools that make build tasks behind simple commands and help me answer: How did I run that code again?
- How do you guys make sense of a complex project on GitHub?
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What build tool(s) do people use for their applications?
I've used psake (powershell+make) https://github.com/psake/psake - the main thing that attracted me to this was that it wasn't an XML based system (Nant/MSbuild), and it handled task prerequisites very nicely. While some devs find powershell a bit of a pain to learn, they generally become useful very quickly, and I think it's useful to be able to do some level of powershelling anyway.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MSBuild and Psake you can also consider the following projects:
Cake - :cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET
Invoke-Build - Build Automation in PowerShell
Roslyn - The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.
FAKE - FAKE - F# Make
CS Make - Sake Build
FlubuCore - A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code.
Albacore - Albacore is a professional quality suite of Rake tasks for building .NET or Mono based systems.