Automated Build Studio provides a visual editor for MSBuild project files, making it easy for build masters to author and maintain even the most complicated MSBuild projects and create them from scratch without digging into XML code. The project structure is visualized as a tree view, with targets, tasks, properties, items and other elements added and arranged via drag-and-drop and modified in user-friendly editors.
You can easily add and configure both predefined MSBuild tasks and build tasks provided by third-party assemblies. In addition, there are shortcuts for custom tasks that wrap SmartBear’s Automated Build Studio and TestComplete, so that you can quickly set up Automated Build Studio’s build macros and TestComplete’s automated tests to run from your MSBuild projects.
Editing support is not only provided for generic MSBuild project files (*.proj, *.targets, *.msbuild, *.tasks), but for any XML file that correspond to the MSBuild project file schema. This includes, among others, Microsoft Visual Studio C# and Visual Basic.NET projects (*.csproj, *.vbproj), Team Foundation Build configuration files (TFSBuild.proj), CodeGear/Embarcadero RAD Studio Delphi and C++Builder projects (*.dproj, *.cbproj).