Integrating MSBuild into Visual Studio

Question

I\'m a solo developer running Visual Studio 2008 and looking into MSBuild to improve my build process.

Almost all of the tutorials I\'ve found so far have plenty of info

Answer 1

MSBuild is the build engine used by Visual Studio to process the files included in a project.
The Visual Studio project files themselves (**.csproj* for C#, and .vbproj for VB, for example) are in fact MSBuild scripts that are run every time you build a project.