Technorati Tags: Msbuild,TFS,Team Build What is MSBuild? MSBuild is a general-purpose build system created by Microsoft and is used to build most Microsoft Visual Studio projects. MSBuild is shipped with the Microsoft .NET Framework. What this means is that you do not need to have Visual Studio installed in order to build your applications. Project File Details you should follow these conventions for specifying the extension of the file: .proj A project file .targets A file that contains shared targets, ......