MSBuild sheds brittle .sln workflows
This video frames the next phase of .NET builds as a tooling and workflow overhaul, not just a performance tune-up. The focus is on smarter inner, middle, and outer loops; build artifacts and commands that are easier for both humans and agents to understand; SLNX as a cleaner replacement for legacy .sln files; and practical speed wins like SSDs, Dev Drive, and binlogs. The core message is that MSBuild and the surrounding .NET tooling are being shaped for large-scale collaboration, faster iteration, and AI-assisted development.
Hot take: this is a build-system modernization story disguised as a productivity talk, and the biggest change is philosophical rather than syntactic.
- –SLNX is the clearest near-term improvement because it reduces the friction and brittleness of solution files without changing the underlying .NET workflow.
- –The inner/middle/outer loop framing matters because it acknowledges that build tooling now has to serve local iteration, repo orchestration, and release engineering at once.
- –AI-aware tooling is the long game: build systems need to expose structure, intent, and diagnostics in ways agents can consume, not just humans reading logs.
- –The Dev Drive and binlog advice is grounded, unglamorous performance engineering, which is usually where real-world wins come from.
- –For teams on large .NET repos, the message is that build speed and maintainability are becoming product features, not just developer preferences.
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2026-05-11
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2026-05-11
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