STSDEV: my favorite sharepoint devel tool

In lots of sharepoint books you will find that features are the preferred packaging mechanism for Sharepoint components. The main and simple reason is that features are easy to activate within existing sites and also have object and event models that are very powerful. A feature can be activated with WSS sites in many ways:

• through the Site Settings Web pages
• with STSADM command line
• site definition references
• feature activation dependencies
• feature stapling

The standard way to deliver a feature is building a wsp file. When building features using VS2008 or VS2005 you have lots of options for using different tools:

• Microsoft Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint (VSeWSS)
  
• WSPBuilder
• my favorite one: STSDEV

STSDEV is the most flexible and easy to customize. It is using MSBuild. Unfortunately I did find one bugs which is annoying enough :

• Can't be used with solutions added to SVN --> thanx for comment, indeed starting from Change Set 12816, it is possible now to used it under SVN