Continuous Integration (CI)
vsSolutionBuildEvent supports CI features [?] and may work without Visual Studio at all.
- CI.MSBuild support for MSBuild Tools.
- Legacy Devenv Command-Line support for devenv Visual Studio instance.
- Other via API. It is easy to support any other tools and environments. Start with Developer Zone.
GUI
You can easily control scripts beyond of the Visual Studio IDE.
Read more in Native scripting.
after.<name>.sln.targets
You can simply use this feature if you only need a unified action in both MSBuild + Visual Studio environments for all projects at once etc. Read here