Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

Building MSIs on the TFS Build Server

Eric Matz — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:23:35 GMT

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How to Have Team Foundation Server Build and Deploy Setup Projects

Technical Weblog of Eric Charran — Fri, 19 May 2006 23:32:18 GMT

This article describes how to have
TFS's build functionality accomodate and build setup and deploy...

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

WixFan — Fri, 19 May 2006 23:57:04 GMT

Better even, just use Wix (http://wix.sourceforge.net) that has native support for MSBuild ;).

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

C.Anbarasu — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:18:57 GMT

Hi , When using BuildTypes ,I am not getting the DeploymentPackage (.msi)file in Release mode,instead it is always creating the deployment package in Debug mode . The following content is my TFSBuild.proj test build tmserver Test D:\BuildSample \\prog_126\Build false Symptom=build break;Steps To Reproduce=Start the build using Team Build Never true Build failure in build: This work item was created by Team Build on a build failure. The build log file is at: The errors/warnings log file is at: Release Any CPU My objective is ,After building this build type ,i have to get the deployment package in Release mode Help me out with this issue

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

FreeToDev — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:58:32 GMT

You could also use the DevEnv build task to simplify it. You will still need VS installed.

Tasks: http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=b4d6499f-0020-4771-a305-c156498db75e

Sample:

<Tools.DevEnv VisualStudio="8.0" Path="MySetup.vdproj" Config="Release" OutputFolder="$(SolutionRoot)\..\BuildType" Clean="true"/>

Regards... FreeToDev

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

TonyL — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:58:31 GMT

Does this still work with the released bits? When I gave it a try the build service never returned so the build went on forever. I had to kill it via task manager and restart the build service.

re: Building setup projects without Team Build on the .Net 2.0

Alex — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:31:26 GMT

I whant to automate the proceses in our teem. But I can't build the msi project neither with msbuild.exe nor Nant nor through the command prompt. Even devenv.exe cann't build *.vdproj through the command prompt. I will aprisiate very much if anutthara tell me how to do any of these steps correctly.

Thank you.

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

Jereme Watts — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:44:49 GMT

Thanks for the tips it got my build server running. I forgot the whole installation permissions thing, I assumed that the configuration of the build server would have given the appropriate permissions to the TFS Service Account.

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

Joey — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:15:12 GMT

Alex, you should be able to build a .vdproj through the command line.

Instead of specifying the .vdproj file, I used the .sln and it seems to be working well for me.

Good Luck,

Joey

Team Build DevEnv Task

Aaron Hallberg — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:35:26 GMT

Because many Visual Studio project types are not supported in MSBuild, many Team Build users end up needing

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

Jignesh Vyas — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:18:56 GMT

I am able to build and install succesfully by following above mentioned step.

Issue arises in scenario where i run the build for the second time. Since it has already installed the application during first build. It cannot install again. It runs in silence mode, actually its waiting for user intervention whether to reinstall or repair the application. Due this build process runs infinetly without ending.

Any help on this scenario is appreciated.

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

anutthara — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:12:52 GMT

Hi Jignesh- You should probably include a task to uninstall the build in your tfsbuild proj file after tests are executed. HTH.

Also, I am on a different team now and dont have the full context on the current scene on setup proj scenario with Team Build. :(

http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh should be the best place to ask setup proj or Team Build related qs

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

buckh — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:27:13 GMT

Jignesh, if you are installing the application you would need to uninstall the application before installing it again. The Build forum on MSDN is a good place to ask questions: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=481&SiteID=1.

Buck

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

Shefeek Rahman — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:14:22 GMT

The article is good... But I tried the thing suggested by you in my TFS build script. But Unfortunately it's keep on going...

what went wrong here.Any idea?

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

mehek — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:31:10 GMT

hi,

i have two configuration set up.

<FlavorToBuild>Development</FlavorToBuild>

<PlatformToBuild>Mixed Platforms</PlatformToBuild>

</ConfigurationToBuild>

<FlavorToBuild>Testing</FlavorToBuild>

<PlatformToBuild>Mixed Platforms</PlatformToBuild>

</ConfigurationToBuild>

</ItemGroup>

i can run one environment at one time .

Can you help me how we can run both(development&testing) at one time.

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

Alex — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:47:01 GMT

For Shefeek:

I presume the name of your TFS build and/or project path contains spaces.

it is easy to work this around by adding a second quote after devenv and another one before the /build.

This should do the trick

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

Mamatha — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:48:39 GMT

How can I build a solution that has

-asp.net webservice

-VC++ DLL

-C# DLL

-setup project

from Team build, using devenv command line for the vdproj file. I get "Unable to find dependencies error". also in which flavor should I build - Release/Debug?

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

Tommy Norman — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:27:49 GMT

I have been trying different flavors of this fix and still do not have it working. After several issues surrounding the fact we code with VSTS2008 but build on TFS2005 I finnaly got the build to run without an error, however the command line building the vdproj using devenv just rebuilds the solution and still skips the setup project. The line is :

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv" c:\tfs1\JurisSuite\MpMainDev\BuildType\..\Sources\Main\Services\Configuration\ConfigurationServiceSetup\ConfigurationServiceSetup.vdproj /Build "Debug|x86"

Any ideas from those who have this working?

Способы сборки инсталляционных пакетов с помощью Team Build

Дмитрий Лапшин — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:45:18 GMT

В идеале, при гибкой (Agile) разработке процесс сборки решения и его развертывания в среде тестирования

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

pradana — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:26:24 GMT

Is it possible to build a setup project without installing VS on the build server? Because I'm required not to install VS there

re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

Craig — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:40:36 GMT

Thanks for the assistence - you answered my questions perfectly.

TFS/MSBuild caveats « Andrzej’s Weblog

TFS/MSBuild caveats « Andrzej’s Weblog — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:15:55 GMT

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re: Building setup projects with Team Build and running tests on product install

Snehal — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:46:27 GMT

This post is almost 2 years old. Are we still not able to build Set project (vdproj) via MSBuild???