Tone's Notes

Pointer for future reference: Volatile Resource Managers in .NET Bring Transactions to the Common Type, by Juval Lowy

From the MSDN site:

Mounting ISO files virtually
The following tool for Windows XP allows image files to be mounted virtually as CD-ROM devices. This tool is provided here for your convenience, and is unsupported by Microsoft Product Support Services.

Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP

Uses the VCdRom.sys driver file (placed in c:\Windows\System32\drivers) and the VCdControlTool.exe configuration GUI to mount DVD & CD ISO image files as virtual drives, saving the time and cost of burning the file to disk.

In a moment of clarity (and subsequently experimentally confirmed) Visual Studio 2005 project files are MSBuild build files.

I started off looking for a way to generate an equivalent MBBuild build file from a VS project file (.csproj).

This is mostly true, but not always true. Windows Forms application setup files are still ad-hoc syntax files that are not MSBuild friendly.

There’s a MSBuild based add-in for web deployment projects in Visual Studio 2005 available here.