For .NET 1.0, there was no msbuild - csproj files were not build files, and they...

jameshart on July 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Weakness of the .NET OSS Ecosystem

For .NET 1.0, there was no msbuild - csproj files were not build files, and they weren't part of .NET, but part of VS. And until James Duncan Davidson got fed up with maintaining batch files and threw together Ant to manage his Tomcat build process, there was no build solution for Java, either.