You actually can extend out MSBuild to use alternative compilers. It already comes with rules for C#, VB, C++, F#, etc. Replacing the rules for C++ with anothe

You actually can extend out MSBuild to use alternative compilers. It already comes with rules for C#, VB, C++, F#, etc. Replacing the rules for C++ with another command line and set of parameters of quite doable! :) (I happen to be using such a build system, unfortunately I wasn't the one who wrote it so I cannot provide any direct help, just encouragement!) It can actually all work from within VS as well.