What tool is the equivalent of Maven in TFS (or MS-land)?

Question

My company is moving from svn (and open source products) to TFS (and MS products). We've used maven in the past for packaging-up pre-built components into release-ready packages. Is there a tool in TFS or MS-Land as powerful as maven to do this?

I've looked at msbuild, but it seems a little less robust than Maven.

Answer 1

You will want to look at Team Build which is part of TFS and MsBuild, which Team Build uses to automate the build process. With these two together, you can create a pretty nice build automation process to genereate iso images, documentation, and run unit tests for example.

Answer 2

There is nothing like it, MSBuild is not like Maven, MSBuild is like Ant. Of course if Ivy can make Ant more "Maven-like", someone could create something like Ivy but for MSBuild and make it more "Maven-like".

There were an attempt to create something like maven called NMaven but it is now a dead project. Other attempts are NPanday and Byldan.But I am not sure on the status of those 2 projects.