Installing MSBuild 4.0 without Visual Studio 2010

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dewald picture dewald · Apr 2, 2010 · Viewed 95.2k times · Source

I installed .NET 4.0 and VS 2010 RC on my laptop and MSBuild was automatically installed. I was hoping to build a continuous integration server by just installing the .NET SDK without VS 2010, so I downloaded the .NET 4.0 Framework from Microsoft at this link. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have installed MSBuild with this download (or at least I can't find it).

Is this link the appropriate link for the SDK, or is this just the runtime? If not, where is the link for the SDK?

I kind of doubt it is the entire SDK as it is only 35MB where the .NET 3.5 SP1 download was over 200MB.

Answer

Frederik picture Frederik · Apr 13, 2010

If you're looking for msbuild, you'll find that for 4.0 it's at:

For 32-bit:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe

For 64-bit:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe

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