I was reading up on MSBuild and found this very good article which explains how to write MSBuild files. A very good read. Its an excerpt from Deploying .NET Applications, by Sayed Y. Hashimi, Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi.
I also found two open source task collection for MSBuild. First one is called MSBuild Extension Pack. It is hosted at CodePlex which has about 300 tasks which includes BizTalk, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, TFS, Visual Studio and alot more.
The other one is hosted at Tigris called MSBuildTask. This has tasks for IIS, Javascript, SourceSafe, SVN, SQLServer.
Having so many tasks available during a build process is an excellent opportunity to automate pretty much the whole deployment process of development -> test -> production promotion strategy.
If you are looking to learn MSBuild, I would recommend to visit following:
Happy MSBuilding!
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