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Found 5 Skills
Establish build performance baselines and apply systematic optimization techniques. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. Use when diagnosing slow builds, establishing before/after measurements, or applying advanced optimization strategies like MSBuild Server, static graph builds, artifacts output, and dependency graph trimming. Start here before diving into specific optimizations from build-perf-diagnostics, incremental-build, or build-parallelism skills. DO NOT use for non-MSBuild build systems.
Guide for optimizing MSBuild incremental builds. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. Use when builds are slower than expected on subsequent runs, when 'nothing changed but it rebuilds anyway', or when diagnosing why incremental builds are broken. Covers Inputs/Outputs on targets, FileWrites tracking, up-to-date checks, and diagnosing unnecessary rebuilds via binlog analysis.
Proper handling of files generated during the MSBuild's build process. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. Use when generated files are not being included in compilation, output, or when globs aren't capturing generated files. Covers MSBuild evaluation vs execution phases, timing targets to include generated files, and ensuring generated files are tracked for incremental builds and clean.
Use when build times are slow, investigating build performance, analyzing Build Timeline, identifying type checking bottlenecks, enabling compilation caching, or optimizing incremental builds - comprehensive build optimization workflows including Xcode 26 compilation caching
Catalog of MSBuild anti-patterns with detection rules and fix recipes. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. Use when reviewing, auditing, or cleaning up .csproj, .vbproj, .fsproj, .props, .targets, or .proj files. Each anti-pattern has a symptom, explanation, and concrete BAD→GOOD transformation. DO NOT use for non-MSBuild build systems (npm, Maven, CMake, etc.).