Tips & Tricks to improve your .NET Build Setup with MSBuild

MSBuild is the powerful - now open source - build system used in all .NET Builds. It has a language of its own and allows you to customize most parts of your build. For growing code bases the requirements to the build and deployment setup of your project(s) increase as well, so in this session Martin will show you a few Tips & Tricks to make working with .NET projects easier, faster and more maintainable. After a quick crash course on its language Martin will show you how to use MSBuild to turn some knobs in the build process, some of which may not be available in your IDE's UI, and go over common customizations and setups. We will also have a look at how to diagnose issues and what tools to go to when builds go wrong. Agenda: 0:00 - Introduction 3:04 - Agenda 3:23 - MSBuild basics 24:40 - Properties 25:01 - Items 25:24 - Targets 25:43 - Evaluation order 25:58 - Practical examples 26:15 - Directory.Build.props/targets 33:00 - Multi-Level Properties 35:40 - Central Packages 37:35 - Versioning 43:19 - Copying Files 45:45 - Content Files 48:51 - Publishing Options 56:06 - Reference Assemblies 59:17 - TFM-Based Preprocessing 1:09:05 - Q&A Sample code: https://github.com/dasMulli/rider-msb... Join us: ReSharper: https://jb.gg/yv6upa .NET Tools Blog: https://jb.gg/1kwpm6 ReSharper on Twitter:   / resharper   #dotnet #ReSharper #msbuild #webinar About the presenter: Martin Ullrich - I am a a software engineer working on diverse tech stacks but focusing mostly on .NET in C#, Web Technologies and iOS/Swift. I am a technology enthusiast who always works on improving development and DevOps processes at our company to make life easier for developers and help deliver high. I was awarded Microsoft MVP for community and open-source work around .NET Core. Follow Martin on Twitter:   / dasmulli