Aaron Hallberg

In Orcas, we introduced a generic information storage for builds - internally this is used for all build steps, associated changesets/workitems, etc.  You can use it to attach arbitrary data to a build (and later retrieve it).  Here are a couple Read More...

The official Orcas RTM OM documentation was posted a while ago, and I neglected to blog about it!  It's available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6466b53d-d80b-4c31-8f5c-dfb5d32e9411&DisplayLang=en .  Make Read More...

If you are planning on attending Tech*Ed Developers in sunny Orlando this year, I'll be manning the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server (Version Control and Build) demo station (quite the name, eh?) for about 22 hours over the course Read More...

As promised, here are some more details on other SP1 changes for TFS Build.  3. Detect test results. In Whidbey, a failed test would result in a failed build - builds were either Succeeded or Failed, so there wasn't really much middle ground.  Read More...

Brian Harry put up a post on the improvements that will be available in the upcoming Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 release.  Here's some more in depth info on two of the TFS Build changes: 1. Conditionalize builds on the trigger. There are actually Read More...