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You've never needed Visual Studio to build .Net projects. They have supported MSBuild from v1.0, you just needed to write the project files by hand - a very ted
by hermitdev 8y ago
You've never needed Visual Studio to build .Net projects. They have supported MSBuild from v1.0, you just needed to write the project files by hand - a very tedious process.
It's just that building from Visual Studio is by far the most convenient method.
- pjmlp 8y agoMSBuild was introduced around .NET 2.0 after Ant's introduction in the Java world. Before there was a project format, callable with devenv command line tool.