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MSBuild Advanced Concepts

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MSBuild has the ability to increase the performance and logging capability of the build process with the use of some advanced techniques. This section describes those techniques and how to use them to improve your builds, as well as how Visual Studio integrates with MSBuild.

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Overview of Logging in MSBuild: Explains how to log errors, warnings, and messages during the build process.
MSBuild Batching: Describes how to batch build targets and tasks based on item metadata.
MSBuild Transforms: Explains how to use transforms to enable dependency analysis.
Visual Studio Integration (MSBuild): Explains how Visual Studio integrates with MSBuild.

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