My co-worker Ben has a short-term memory about Custom Build Steps in his VB.NET rant.  He complains that VB.NET has no build steps…which is a big gap, in my opinion.  I don’t understand why this was left out.  It really has nothing to do with semicolons…it’s just a macro.  I have always accomplished this with a C+ nmake project.

I say “short-term memory” because of it wasn’t available in C# in VS 2002.   Reference HOW TO: Implement Build Events in Visual C# .NET which tells you how to work around the limitation that was available in 1.0 with C# and VB.NET.