Is there any MSBuild alternative?

Question

**I\'m an under training student with so few experience of C#. Our company is developing a solution using T4 templates (C# VS2010). The generated files can\'t be compiled un

Answer 1

MSBuild is basically a managed and highly extendable version of NMake and as such is not VS dependent! It IS however .NET dependent.

So you should be able to use MSBuild to orchestrate everything you need.

Even the C# compiler is part of the .NET runtime so you should even be able to build C# targets without incurring a VS dependency.