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The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 12 comments · first 2015-03-18 · latest 2026-01-29

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  1. …a different one than OP), it's the original codename for MSBuild, still present in the code: https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/blob/main/src/MSBuild/XMak... :)
    comment by janjones · 2026-01-29 · in Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
  2. …see, for example, the dotnet MSBuild[1][2][3]. Maybe even switch to the UTF-8 instead. [1] https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/53 [2] https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/5331 [3] https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/4200
    comment by xvilka · 2021-10-17 · in WordPress Latin1 and UTF-8, Part 2
  3. ▲ 2
    Fix Legacy Msbuild Issues
    story by haecceity · 2021-02-03 · 0 comments
  4. …https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ Are there other releases of msbuild, for example? Yes: https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/releases But are they separate from releases of Visual Studio? No, as the release notes indicate. If you…
    comment by lstamour · 2020-08-27 · in New case studies about Google’s use of Go
  5. https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild It's also fairly well documented: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/msbuil...
    comment by ygra · 2019-09-17 · in MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library
  6. …But other common first-party windows development tools can still have the problem: https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/issues/53
    comment by ploxiln · 2017-03-10 · in Revisiting 64-bit-ness in Visual Studio and elsewhere (2015)
  7. https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/issues/940 feels more like an advertisement than a genuine issue report. Wouldn't it be better to make two or three issues from the "worst" errors found, rather than pointing at a third party blog?
    comment by voltagex_ · 2016-08-25 · in Checking the C# Source Code of MSBuild with PVS-Studio
  8. https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild
    comment by ygra · 2015-11-18 · in Visual Studio Code is now open source
  9. Okay https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild
    comment by jongalloway2 · 2015-11-18 · in Visual Studio Code is now open source
  10. I believe MSBuild is doing something similar (but on Windows) - https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/tree/master/src/Utiliti...
    comment by malkia · 2015-04-10 · in Memoize – a replacement for make relying on strace
  11. ▲ 3
    Microsoft open sourced msbuild
    story by alexcasalboni · 2015-03-19 · 0 comments
  12. https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/commits/master 3 commits. Because MSBuild just happened. The whole point of open source is that you get to go back and see how the software evolved. Git blame. Everybody learns.
    comment by edandersen · 2015-03-18 · in MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
  13. > Nobody is seriously going to fork this https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/network
    comment by JetSpiegel · 2015-03-18 · in MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
  14. The, uh, first PR: https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/pull/1
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-03-18 · in MSBuild is now open source on GitHub