Aaron Hallberg

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...