title: Integrating MSBuild into Visual Studio
body: <p>I'm a solo developer running Visual Studio 2008 and looking into MSBuild to improve my build process.</p>
  
  <p>Almost all of the tutorials I've found so far have plenty of information about writing a build file. However I'm having a lot of trouble finding out how to integrate MSBuild into Visual Studio. Maybe MSBuild is only used with something like CruiseControl but that's overkill for me as a single developer.</p>
  
  <p>Where should the build file live in a Visual Studio project and how can I run it from within the IDE?</p>