Adding BuildSteps to Team Build through a Custom Task

Team Build blogger: Aaron Hallberg

Buck Hodges — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:45:41 GMT

Aaron Hallberg, a developer working on Team Build,&nbsp;has taken the plunge and started a blog.&nbsp;...

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I learned from Buck Hodges that a developer on his Team Foundation Build team in North Carolina, Aaron...

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One of the things that made working with the early betas and CTPs of VSTS great was the transparency

Adding Custom Loggers to Team Build

Aaron Hallberg — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:02:38 GMT

Most of the magic in a Team Build is done using either (a) customized tasks, or (b) a customized logger.&nbsp;&nbsp;Well,...

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Buck Hodges on Team Build blogger: Aaron Halberg.

And speaking of Aaron Halberg, here is his post...

Custom Build Task.

Refines.Info["Polo Lee"] — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:34:17 GMT

一直在思考是否有真正的範例，來整合 Team Build 與 Java Compiler... Well .. 不幸的是還真的沒有超級現成的範例。但至少目前 Aaron 的腳本給了一點方向，透過...

Determining Whether Tests Passed in Team Build

Aaron Hallberg — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:26:36 GMT

In a forum post a while back, I laid out a method for determining whether tests had passed during a build.&nbsp;...

Adding Build Steps to Team Build in orcas

Aaron Hallberg — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:01:07 GMT

Way back in August I did a post (my 2nd ever!) on adding build steps to Team Build using a custom task.

Building Non-MSBuild Projects With Team Build

Aaron Hallberg — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:03:11 GMT

Building non-MSBuild projects in Team Build has never been a particularly nice experience... You can

Better integrating other build tools into your build

Buck Hodges — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:43:00 GMT

Aaron Hallberg wrote a great post today showing how to use a custom task to better integrate other build

Getting the Modified Files for a Team Build Build

Aaron Hallberg — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:04:28 GMT

I've had several people inquire recently about how to figure out which files have changed since the previous

Determining Whether Tests Passed in Team Build

Aaron Hallberg — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:06:43 GMT

In a forum post a while back, I laid out a method for determining whether tests had passed during a build.

Adding Custom Loggers to Team Build

Aaron Hallberg — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:09:08 GMT

Most of the magic in a Team Build is done using either (a) customized tasks, or (b) a customized logger

Customizing Team Build

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I'm speaking at TechEd 2007 in Orlando this coming June on the whys and hows of customizing TFS. As part

Customizing Team Build

Srikanth R - A VSTS and TFS Blog — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:09:53 GMT

Sharing this information from Jeff Beehler's Blog Aaron’s posts on how to extend team build through custom

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As those who are doing unit testing in Visual Studio Team System will know, it is not always the easiest

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re: Adding BuildSteps to Team Build through a Custom Task

AlexeyYumashin — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:13:19 GMT

Hi Aaron,

Could you please check my post at Microsoft forums?

Here it is: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2892292&SiteID=1

I use the recommended approach under TFS 2005 and everything is OK except that BuildStepData.BuildStepName always returns an empty string (BuildStepData.BuildStepMessage returns correct value at the same time). Because of that I'm lack of unique ID to identify buils steps in my custom "Monitor build progress" dialog :(

re: Adding BuildSteps to Team Build through a Custom Task

Raman Chandrayan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:50:01 GMT

Is there a way to mention a URL in message so that we can click it and browse the URL ?

re: Adding BuildSteps to Team Build through a Custom Task

myost2921 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:59:23 GMT

Hi Aaron,

Do you have an update that will work with TFS 2008?

re: Adding BuildSteps to Team Build through a Custom Task

aaronhallberg — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:59:38 GMT

TFS 2008 includes a BuildStep task in the core product - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399129.aspx.