I am glad that MS has finally added support to MSBuild for C++ (http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/11/20/printf-hello-msbuild-n.aspx).  I hope it is not limited to managed C++ only.  I am surprised this took so long.  I am somehow not as sucked into MSBuild (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0k6kkbsd.aspx) as I was to NAnt (http://nant.sourceforge.net/).  But this is definitely better than the JAM (http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html) build system that Boost (http://www.boost.org/) uses.