Good techniques to use Makefiles in VisualStudio?

Question

I know the ideal way to build projects is without requiring IDE based project files, since it theoretically causes all sort of trouble with automation and what not. But I\'v

Answer 1

Take a look at MSBuild!

• MSBuild can work with the sln/csproj files from VS, so for simple projects you can just call them directly.
• if you need more control, wrap the projects in your own build process, add your own tasks etc. - it is very extensible!

(I wanted to add a sample but this edior totally messed up the XML... sorry)