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Correct, VS commandline calls MSBuild. They're using MSBuild, they just don't know it.
by Mandatum 12y ago
Correct, VS commandline calls MSBuild. They're using MSBuild, they just don't know it.
- O____________O 12y agoCorrect, VS commandline calls MSBuild. That seems like an inaccurate description of what's happening: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11932164/what-parameters-does-visual-studio-pass-to-msbuild http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11932164/what-parameters-... They're using MSBuild, they just don't know it. Given the age of projects I've worked on, and that it's unclear whether MSBuild is involved in VS's C++ compilation, I don't think your assumption is correct.
- Negitivefrags 12y agoVisual Studio changed to using MSBuild for C++ at the time when the project file extension changed from "vcproj" to "vcxproj". The change was explicitly to make it so that a C++ project file was an MSBuild script. Visual Studio absolutely uses MSBuild for C++ projects.
- rjblackman 12y agoincorrect, the visual studio solution file has build configuration details that msbuild will not honour (e.g. you can specify certain build order parameters), as I found out recently with a project I took over. (I was wondering why building from the command line with ms build produced different results).