Take the 2-minute tour ×  I hate IDEs, is there any way to use
Make to build Metro apps from source code?  share|improve this
question You'd probably want to use MSBuild.. –  Mike
Christensen Nov 15 '12 at 20:55 Yup, MSBuild is the .NET build
scripting framework. Related -
stackoverflow.com/questions/11604794/msbuild-windows-8-metro – 
jrummell Nov 15 '12 at 20:55 @jrummell How do I download/install
MSBuild? What's the executable name? If it's part of Visual
Studio, which directory does it appear in? –  mcandre Nov 15 '12
at 22:17 It's part of the Windows SDK. –  jrummell Nov 16 '12 at
13:23 add comment  2 Answers  up vote 2 down vote accepted
MSBuild can natively build Visual Studio projects (*.csproj) or
code files directly:  msbuild Project.csproj /t:Rebuild  It's
installed with Visual Studio and/or the .NET Framework, and can
be found (depending on your framework version) at:   I also just
double checked on our Windows 2008 web server (which does not
have Visual Studio installed, but does have .NET 4 ins