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TfsBuild.rsp and Logging Verbosity in Orcas

In the 2.0 .NET Framework, MSBuild's default verbosity for its FileLogger was "normal". As such, if you needed diagnostic logging information in a Team Build build (e.g. for debugging an issue with the build process) you needed to add the following to Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:55 PM by aaronhallberg | 4 Comments

Adding Build Steps to Team Build in orcas

Way back in August I did a post (my 2nd ever!) on adding build steps to Team Build using a custom task. I thought I would revisit this topic in the context of the latest version of Team Build, now available in the March CTP of Orcas. In Orcas, you'll Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:00 AM by aaronhallberg | 9 Comments

Passing custom properties to individual solutions in Team Build

Gautam Goenka posted an article on this topic way back on April 20, 2006. It included a targets file which overrode the standard Team Build CoreCompile target and allowed user-specified properties to be passed into the MSBuild tast that Team Build uses Read More...
Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 3:54 PM by aaronhallberg | 12 Comments
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Attachment(s): CoreCompileOverride.targets

The Triumphant Return?

Wow - it's been a long time. Sorry for the insanely long delay between posts, loyal reader(s). A lot has happened since I last managed to post something on my blog: I've been working like crazy, along with the rest of the Team Build team, to get our Continuous Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:26 AM by aaronhallberg | 5 Comments
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Determining Whether Tests Passed in Team Build

In a forum post a while back, I laid out a method for determining whether tests had passed during a build. More recently, I have linked to this forum post in advising others on similar problems. Unfortunately, as a sharp user pointed out in this same Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:26 PM by aaronhallberg | 11 Comments
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Building a Specific Version with Team Build

Team Build by default gets the latest version of your sources (or tip ) from source control. For the most part, this is probably the behavior you would want and expect. But not always - you might want to reproduce a particular build that got deleted, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:40 AM by aaronhallberg | 9 Comments
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MSBuild Batching - Generate a Cross-Product (continued)

As promised, here is the code for the ItemGroupCrossProduct task presented in a previous post: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Microsoft.Build.Framework; using Microsoft.Build.Utilities; namespace CustomTasks { public class ItemGroupCrossProduct Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 4:06 PM by aaronhallberg | 1 Comments
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MSBuild Batching - Generating a Cross-Product

I've been playing around with the batching functionality in MSBuild quite a bit lately, and thought I'd share my various little discoveries with the world... If you aren't sure what batching is in MSBuild, check out this MSDN page. Alternatively, here's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:13 AM by aaronhallberg | 5 Comments
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Adding Custom Loggers to Team Build

Most of the magic in a Team Build is done using either (a) customized tasks, or (b) a customized logger . Well, most of the build machine magic - there's plenty of magic in the client, the Application Tier , and the Data Tier . All right - even on the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:02 AM by aaronhallberg | 5 Comments
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Adding BuildSteps to Team Build through a Custom Task

Team Build displays Build Steps in the build report form within Visual Studio. By default, build steps are added at various points during the course of a build - while getting sources (in the Get task), compiling solutions / projects, copying files to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:14 PM by aaronhallberg | 21 Comments
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