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		wangii on Sept 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core what's the core advantage over make/rake?

rblatz on Sept 3, 2015 [–]

Historically the project files in C# apps included msbuild configuration. Also a lot of nuget packages include a.targets file, which also contains msbuild configuration. For compatibility reasons if you are using the .net ecosystem you need msbuild.

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