Jason Prickett's Blog

So, I have gotten this question a couple of times... "How can I add my own custom menu item to a TFS Build Automation context menu?" Yes, this is possible and not really that difficult. We even added some extensibility in 2010 to make this an even better...

Okay, so I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago and exposed two of the menu guids for Build. Since then I have been asked for others, so here they all are... Menu Guid (we use the same guid for all build menus): {34586048-8400-472e-BBBF-3AE30AF8046E...

In this post, I just want to help those of you out there that have upgraded from 2008 and need to bulk update all of your definitions. In this particular example, I will be updating the retention policies to remove the deletion of the label with the deletion...

If you use the TFS Build Automation Object Model, then you may have noticed that we have objects that are related to Controllers and Agents, but that don't show up in the UI. These objects are called Build Service Host objects or IBuildServiceHost objects...