Editing MSBuild Xml files can be a bit of a chore. For general everyday file editing I tend to use NotePad++ which is an awesome file editor and viewer. However, you can use Visual Studio to edit your MSBuild files and at the same time get Intellisense!
Open up Visual Studio and go to the Tools -> Options and go to the Text Editor options then you can associate file extensions to text editors. For MSBuild files we need to associate things like “proj” to “XML Editor with Encoding”. Now we also have intellisense to help write the script.
Now Visual Studio will be able to load the .proj MSBuild script into the correct editor and you can obviously associate *.proj files with Visual Studio to launch into them from Windows Explorer.
Editing MSBuild Xml files can be a bit of a chore. For general everyday file editing I tend to use NotePad++ which is an awesome file editor and viewer. However, you can use Visual Studio to edit your MSBuild files and at the same time get Intellisense!
Open up Visual Studio and go to the Tools -> Options and go to the Text Editor options then you can associate file extensions to text editors. For MSBuild files we need to associate things like “proj” to “XML Editor with Encoding”. Now we also have intellisense to help write the script.
Now Visual Studio will be able to load the .proj MSBuild script into the correct editor and you can obviously associate *.proj files with Visual Studio to launch into them from Windows Explorer.