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The recent Visual Studio 2017 Update (also known as VS 15.3) introduced a problem with command line compilation when the Lightweight Solution Load feature is enabled. **Update 25 Sept 2017*** : Microsoft have closed our bug report with a Wont Fix status.. seems they are too busy with other things.

We have been working on moving Continua CI to .net 4.6.1 for a future release, and during this conversion (so far, mostly just updating nuget packages), we discovered an issue that turned out to be caused by a change to .net certificate validation.

FinalBuilder 8 is now available for download.

Finalbuilder 8 Beta is now available for download. This post describes what's new/changed in FinalBuilder 8.

I just posted a new tech article about the FinalBuilder 6 .NET Custom Action API. If you've ever done any custom action development with .NET, then I strongly suggest you check this out.

An observation about the .NET Just-In-Time compiler and the resolution of Assembly references. It's a fairly simple observation, but it came as a surprise to me.

If you're coding for .NET to run on 32- and 64-bit architectures, there are a bunch of "gotchas" when it comes to the different versions of the CLR.

Something I get asked quite often with regards to FinalBuilder is why don't I rewrite it in a .NET language, that way anyone could write plugins.