Orcas SP1 TFS Build Changes

re: Orcas SP1 TFS Build Changes

Balaji.Dave — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:41:52 GMT

Hi Arron

Is there any performance improvement on BUILD in Orcas SP1.

Thanks

Balaji Dave

re: Orcas SP1 TFS Build Changes

aaronhallberg — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:08:07 GMT

Yes, there are several performance improvements:

(1) The reduced build log noise also corresponds to reduced server calls during compilation, which should speed things up a bit.

(2) There were several database tweaks for SP1 (a new index, modified stored procedures, etc.) that should speed things up a bit as well.

(3) Certain information nodes are now updated in bulk (in one server call) rather than individually (in multiple server calls).

The amount of benefit you see from these changes will depend on the specifics of the solutions you are building, but everyone should see some performance gains.

-Aaron

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re: Orcas SP1 TFS Build Changes

danielm — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:22:58 GMT

Hi Aaron,

I have just installed TFS 2008 SP1 on our server and build machines,

however I am still getting those addional build steps in our build logs ( 'GetTargetPath', 'GetNativeManifest' and 'GetCopyToOutputDirectoryItems'). Is there anything else that I have to do to our build scripts to remove these entries?

Thanks,

Daniel

re: Orcas SP1 TFS Build Changes

mfreidge — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:49:37 GMT

Hi Aaron,

After upgrading to TFS 2008+SP1 from TFS 2005 I have problems related to incorrect/corrupted tfsBuild database (in particular column Reason).

Could you look at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfssetup/thread/fa81ffed-4574-410e-be7f-7a86462f15fc thread and give me any ideas if possible?

re: Orcas SP1 TFS Build Changes

joverbeek — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:45:36 GMT

Hi Daniel,

We had the same problem, it looks like TFS SP1 doesn't update Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets on the build machines. I copied the file manually from a michine that has the latest (SP1) version, and then the additional build steps disappeared.

Regards,

Jan

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Aaron Hallberg — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:14:22 GMT

I did a post a while back on a change in TFS Build SP1 which reduced build log noise by cutting out the

re: Orcas SP1 TFS Build Changes

j.oliver — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:52:09 GMT

Regarding not updating the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets file - we experienced this and after some testing deduced that if you have previously modified the targets file, the SP1 installer will not overwrite your copy. It doesn't warn or log or tell you about this either though! We installed on a vanilla machine, then manually merged our changes in.