MSBuild Community Tasks Project for VS 2005
David Yack posted a great pointer to a community project where you can find a long list of cool MSBuild Custom Tasks that you can use within your VS 2005 build environments. You should be able to use these with both the VS 2005 Web Deployment Project and with the VS 2005 Web Application Project option in VS 2005 when building ASP.NET 2.0 projects.
You can learn about the project and download a .MSI setup containing them here. Check out the current list of cool MSBuild tasks they have on the web-site:
| AppPoolController* | Allows control for an application pool on a local or remote machine with IIS installed. |
| AppPoolCreate* | Creates a new application pool on a local or remote machine. |
| AppPoolDelete* | Deletes an existing application pool on a local or remote machine. |
| AssemblyInfo | Generates an AssemblyInfo file using the attributes given. |
| FileUpdate* | Replace text in file(s) using a Regular Expression. |
| FtpUpload | Uploads a file using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). |
| FxCop* | Uses FxCop to analyze managed code assemblies and reports on their design best-practice compliance. |
| Sends an email message. | |
| Math.Add | Add numbers. |
| Math.Divide | Divide numbers. |
| Math.Multiple | Multiple numbers. |
| Math.Subtract | Subtract numbers. |
| NDoc | Runs NDoc V1.3.1 to create documentation. |
| NUnit | Runs tests using the NUnit V2.2 framework. |
| RegistryRead | Reads a value from the Registry. |
| RegistryWrite | Writes a value to the Registry. |
| Script* | Executes code contained within the task. |
| ServiceController* | Task that can control a Windows service. |
| ServiceQuery* | Task that can determine the status of a service. |
| Sleep* | A task for sleeping for a specified period of time. |
| SqlExecute* | Executes a SQL command |
| SvnCheckout | Checkout files from Subversion |
| SvnClient | Subversion Client |
| SvnCommit | Commit files to Subversion |
| SvnExport | Export files from Subversion |
| SvnUpdate | Update files from Subversion |
| SvnVersion | Get Subversion revision number of a local copy |
| Unzip | Unzip a file to a target directory. |
| Version | Increments a four-part version number stored in a text file |
| VssAdd* | Adds files to a Visual SourceSafe database. |
| VssCheckin* | Checks in files to a Visual SourceSafe database. |
| VssCheckout* | Checks out files from a Visual SourceSafe database. |
| VssClean* | Removes Visual SourceSafe binding information and status files from a Visual Studio solution tree. |
| VssDiff* | Generates a diff between two versions of an item in a Visual SourceSafe database. |
| VssGet* | Gets the latest version of a file or project from a Visual SourceSafe database. |
| VssHistory* | Generates an XML file containing the history of an item in a Visual SourceSafe database between two dates or labels. |
| VssLabel* | Labels an item in a Visual SourceSafe database. |
| VssUndoCheckout* | Cancels a checkout of an item from a Visual SourceSafe database. |
| WebDirectoryCreate* | Creates a new web directory on a local or remote machine. |
| WebDirectoryDelete* | Deletes a web directory on a local or remote machine |
| WebDownload* | Downloads a resource with the specified URI to a local file. |
| XmlRead | Reads a value from a XML document using a XPath. |
| XmlWrite | Updates a XML document using a XPath. |
| Xslt* | Merge and transform a set of xml files. |
| Zip | Create a zip file with the files specified. |
Hope this is useful -- and special thanks to David for pointing me at it,
Scott
Update: Ulab also pointed me at this link which has some pretty cool MSbuild tasks too: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=2cb20e79-d706-4706-9ea0-26188257ee7d (thanks Ulab!)