Building non-MSBuild projects in Team Build has never been a particularly nice experience... You can make it work, typically by invoking DevEnv.exe or some other tool using an Exec task, but you don't get any output in your build report, can't control...

Way back in August I did a post (my 2nd ever!) on adding build steps to Team Build using a custom task. I thought I would revisit this topic in the context of the latest version of Team Build, now available in the March CTP of Orcas. In Orcas, you...

A problem that comes up over and over again (see forums posts here , here , etc.) with Team Build v1 is that it is very difficult to compile individual solutions and/or individual projects within a solution into their own output directories. I did a post...

The March CTP of Orcas is now available (Buck has a post on this here ), and with it comes your first chance to play around with the new and improved Team Build. I'm pretty excited about the changes in the build process (defined in Microsoft.TeamFoundation...

I'm back (obviously) from my parental leave, by the way. Here's a photo of my new baby girl, born Feb 6th, 2007 - 7lbs 1oz, 19 3/4 inches.

Gautam Goenka posted an article on this topic way back on April 20, 2006. It included a targets file which overrode the standard Team Build CoreCompile target and allowed user-specified properties to be passed into the MSBuild tast that Team Build uses...