Last time we made a Fake build script for an ASP.Net MVC project. I wanted to bring this to the next level and set up continuous integration for the project. I've used TeamCity in the past and it was ok, it did its thing but there was a lot of configuration involved to get a project up and running and the performance was sometimes slower than I expected. So looking for alternatives the first thing I tried was Bitbucket Pipelines but it can apparently only be used for .Net Core projects. I don't think it can run Windows tasks at the moment.

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Creating a build script, always a hassle to do and one of the things that gets the lowest priority in the backlog. Certainly on small projects. On one of my previous work places MSBuild was used to automate the builds. I had such a bad experience with it that I just plain ignored it for several years. It was hard to use and maintain. I heard of Fake, a build automation system written in F# which gets its inspiration from rake and make, and gave it a try!

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