Extending the team build web-view

re: Extending the team build web-view

Simon Burgess — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:54:17 GMT

Hi
This is going to be really useful for me. Can you tell me is it possible to customise the list for example to show the changesets and by association the work items included in each build?

re: Extending the team build web-view

abhinaba — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:47:13 GMT

The answer is yes. Web-methods to do this is included. I'll get a sample ready about doing this soon.

Do you have any specific scenario for which you want to do this? I mean for web-ui you already get this for free. If you click on any of the Build Type name in the build list, the detailed build-report web-ui is opened which has both of this information. If you want to show the information for the whole build-list, you'll hit two issues

1)it'll clutter your view as each build will have multiple changeset and multiple associated work-items. It'll be difficult to organize this information for all builds in a single window

2) you'll hit severe permorfance issue. Say you have 200 builds on your system. You'll get the list using one web-method call. Then to get the changeset and work-items you'll need to call multiple web-methods for each of the builds. So you'll soon land up with couple of thousands of web-method calls per report. If you have some smart devs who wants to not work on the pretex of the "server is down" he'll just get couple of his friends to hit F5 on the report page couple of times. It's another story that you can read the blog http://blogs.msdn.com/abhinaba/archive/2005/12/27/507499.aspx and actually catch him and his friends and make them work over the week-end

re: Extending the team build web-view

Anthony Borton — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:09:40 GMT

Hi Abhinaba,

Thanks for another great extension for TFS. One quick thing though... In steps 5 and 6 did you mean to put the RSS.ASPX URL? :)

Cheers

Anthony

re: Extending the team build web-view

abhinaba — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:31:41 GMT

I fixed the typo. In steps 5 and 6 it'll be BuildList.aspx and not rss.aspx

Team System Utilities

SRLTeam — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:24:00 GMT

There is a lot of useful free utilities for Team System you can find spread all over the web. Some of

re: Extending the team build web-view

Jarle Nygård — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:52:24 GMT

This is no longer working, I assume it has to do with difference in APIs, as it won't compile. :)

I am getting compilation error

samant — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:45:55 GMT

Compilation Error

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

Compiler Error Message: CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Common' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

Source Error:

Line 16: <%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.TeamFoundation" %>

Line 17: <%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Server" %>

Line 18: <%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Common" %>

Line 19:

Line 20: <%

Source File: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Web Services\Build\v1.0\BuildList.aspx

List of Tools and Add-ins for TFS/VSTS

It's Way Too Early For This — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:14:55 GMT

[EDIT] I neglected to mention that I received this listing from a colleague on the day I posted it. But

Team Foundation Server Tools

Team Individualism — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:39:36 GMT

A dump, of various tools, thanks to Zeeshan Shah. Note: this is not an endorsed list. Utilities Team

re: I am getting compilation error

Bhavdeep — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:42:58 GMT

Hi,

I also faced the same problem getting compilation error. but i just removed

<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Common" %>

and its working..

If anoone is using TFS 2008 with Sp1.

You could extarct these files under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\Web Services\Build\V2.0

and this way it will pickup the images as well.

Thanks