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June 2007 - Posts

Building From The Command-Line With DevEnv

Many Visual Studio project types are not supported by MSBuild - setup projects, reporting projects, etc. As such, the typical guidance for building these types of projects from within Team Build has centered around invoking devenv (the IDE) using an Exec Read More...
Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 10:58 AM by aaronhallberg | 3 Comments

Solution Configurations

Team Build (v1 and Orcas) typically deals with solution configurations, which many people (including me circa 2005) don't understand. So - I figured I'd post a quick tutorial here on solution configurations vs. project configurations... Project-Level Read More...
Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 11:18 AM by aaronhallberg | 3 Comments

Team Build and Multiproc MSBuild

MSBuild is introducing a new feature in Orcas where projects can be built in parallel - see their team blog post for details. Team Build has added support for this feature by: Modifying Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets to build each configuration Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:56 PM by aaronhallberg | 6 Comments

Upcoming Visual Studio Team System Chat - July 3rd

FYI - we've got two chats occurring on July 3rd - here's all the info: Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System product group – July 3rd Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:44 AM by aaronhallberg | 0 Comments

Team Build and 260+ Character Paths

A fairly common issue in Team Build v1 involved builds failing due to paths that exceed 260 characters - see this forum post, for example. 260 characters is not a Team Build limit - it is a Windows limit. See here for a reference on this topic... Team Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:40 AM by aaronhallberg | 11 Comments

Team Build and the AssemblyInfo Task

Gautam Goenka, dev lead for Team Build v1, wrote a blog post way back in January of 2004 that laid out an approach for using the AssemblyInfo task to update version numbers with Team Build. I refer people to this post all the time, and have never had Read More...
Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 10:44 AM by aaronhallberg | 5 Comments

Preserving Output Directory Structures in Orcas Team Build

A common complaint with Team Build v1 was that it ignored the output paths specified for individual projects and just dumped all binaries and other compilation outputs into a flat directory structure... In previous posts (e.g. this one ) I have discussed Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:38 PM by aaronhallberg | 10 Comments
 
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