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When the Microsoft Developer Division sat down to consider the future of .NET development from v2.0 onwards, they recognised the build process in Visual Studio .NET was primitive in its facilities. It had to be re-architected to provide a much more flexible and extensible mechanism. Thus the re-engineering endeavour that brought us MSBuild. ...

One of the many great strides the ASP.NET team has taken to improve web developers' experience with Visual Studio came in the manifestation of the Web Deployment Project. The most important feature, at least in my eyes, is configuration section replacement. Keeping settings meant for different environments having it all consolidated into the ...