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MSBuild only builds Xml files that follow the MSBuild standards. However, there is a special case for solutions, because you can just build solutions using MSBuild, although this is not an MSBuild format. MSBuild supports this by first generating an in-memory MSBuild file (called a traversal project) that will build all projects included in the ...

My colleague wouter spotted this new feature in the .NET 2.0 framework. This attribute gives you the ability to do an Animal Farm trick.. all assemblies are equal, but some assemblies are more equal in the fact that they are allowed to access your internal stuff. This solves a problem we've had with unittesting. Because we always use a separate ...

As we found out today, the default settings for Visual Studio 2005 Professional are to not show the solution by default. This means that as soon as you add a project to a blank solution, the solution disappears and you are unable to add another project. This is easy to fix though: Make sure that you have the option to ''Always show solution'' ...

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I decided to create a new link page that are related to .net version upgrades. Often you wonder if a certain problem is fixes in a service pack, or what problems migt occur when you upgrade your code to a new version of .NET. This link page is intended to point to those types of information. I also moved the .NET 2.0 breaking changes link to this ...