In part two of my 35 part series, better know a Proxy, I'll be going over the GetListOfBuilds method (of the BuildStore class in the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Proxy namespace). public BuildData [] GetListOfBuilds( string teamProject, string buildType...

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...

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,...

As Buck Hodges recently noted, some Team Build API documentation recently made it up onto MSDN . Unfortunately, most (maybe all? I haven't been through it all) of the topics are skeletons, with no real content. I'll be trying to remedy this by posting...

It's funny how things come in bunches sometimes... I had never heard of the issue discussed in this blog post as of a couple of days ago, but we have received two queries on the topic in the Team Build forums in the last few days. (Here they are, if you...

As promised, here is the code for the ItemGroupCrossProduct task presented in a previous post: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Microsoft.Build.Framework; using Microsoft.Build.Utilities; namespace CustomTasks { public...

Well, I was supposed to blog about this before the actual event, but I haven't been feeling well and didn't have a chance... I just finished up representing Team Build in the Visual Studio Team System Chat (info at http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats for...

I've been playing around with the batching functionality in MSBuild quite a bit lately, and thought I'd share my various little discoveries with the world... If you aren't sure what batching is in MSBuild, check out this MSDN page. Alternatively, here...