---
title: "When they tell me I have to use MSBuild to automate our CI Process"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2012/12/12/when-they-tell-me-i-have-to-use-msbuild-to-automate-our-ci-p.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2012/12/12/when-they-tell-me-i-have-to-use-msbuild-to-automate-our-ci-p.html"
published: "2012-12-12T22:32:30"
updated: "2012-12-12T22:32:30"
tags: ["MSBuild", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "When they tell me I have to use MSBuild to automate our CI Process When I see a terminal keyboard junkie doing their thing When we are starting a brand new green field project When they approve the budget for…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# When they tell me I have to use MSBuild to automate our CI Process

By Roy Osherove December 12, 2012 In [MSBuild](https://osherove.com/blog/category/msbuild), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 12, 2012; technical details may be outdated.

When they tell me I have to use MSBuild to automate our CI Process

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_OelVq.gif)

When I see a terminal keyboard junkie doing their thing

When we are starting a brand new green field project

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_K2o7L.gif)

When they approve the budget for FinalBuilder so we don’t have to use MSBuild

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/images.wikia.com_glee_images_7_7b_Happy_dance.gif)

When they approve the resharper licenses

![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/2355f632_i.minus.com_i2wTF9uHxOvOC.gif)

When my build crashes but is overshadowed by a separate project build’s crash

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_bjIGJ.gif)

when I can’t figure out how to test something

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_oEQvr.gif)

when I pair with someone in a programming language I have almost no experience with

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_CDXRi.gif)

when someone comes back after a two day scrum master class

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_2atp1.gif)

the first time you try to automatically deploy to a staging server

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_sd1ld.gif)

When my family in Israel complains about the cold weather, while I am living in Norway

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_L24cy.gif)

when I arrive at a project that started 5 years ago

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_2O3WS.gif)

When I look at a piece of code I want to refactor![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_xbXVj.gif)

When they tell me there have been new enhancements to CodePlex.com

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_8YUXC.gif)

## More in MSBuild

[All posts in MSBuild](https://osherove.com/blog/category/msbuild)

- Jun 19, 2006

    ### [MSBuild SideKick - Fixed to use with Team Build](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/19/msbuild-sidekick-fixed-to-use-with-team-build.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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