The following sample task illustrates how to add custom build step messages to the build process. using System; using Microsoft.Build.Framework; using Microsoft.Build.Utilities; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; using Microsoft...

There are several requests on how to publish test results to a TFS server without really creating a build. The build entry is a prerequisite for publishing test results, so you will need to create one and also create an associated project configuration...

Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised by my college mate, a good friend, Jothibasu contacting me. He was going through blogs on msdn and came across my blog J and contacted me. This brought back a lot of college day memories. I’m amazed, 10 years were...

Oh, it is already 1½ months since I blogged. I feel time has been just flying, had a good time with kids during holidays. I wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year. BTW, I’ve been reading a lot of blogs of late. One of my favorites is...

Gijo, test lead for VSTF migration tools has started blogging . He has got plenty of first hand experience with these tools, so check out his blog regularly to learn tips and tricks about them!!

In a team environment, developers would need to use the same build configuration that is used to release the product builds and validate their implementation on their machines. TeamBuild offers this functionality through a feature called ‘Desktop Build...

As you might already know, a managed component can be uniquely identified by assembly signing. Refer here to learn details on this subject. This can be executed in TeamBuild process as well. Yesterday, I’ve answered a query on how to use password...

The enterprise builds are huge and take a significant amount of build time. MSBuild offers an option to track the performance of each task and target executed in the build process which would be quite helpful for builders to identify the performance problems...

I always have this slight confusion around where to draw the line between mission and vision statements. So, I looked at wikipedia for the exact difference between these two and quite astonished to know how different they are. Excerpt from this article...

As all of you know, the best way to gauge the quality of software is to assess through the real customer scenarios, i.e., how the customer out there would consume this product. We are doing this testing for TeamBuild and migration tools ( Clear...

Rob Caron posted a nice collection of resources on TeamBuild. Some additional teambuild blogs are: http://blogs.msdn.com/abhinaba http://blogs.msdn.com/gautam http://blogs.msdn.com/khushboo

In VS 2005, you can edit project files (.csproj, .vbproj etc) in VS itself while they are loaded. Right click on the project node in Solution Explorer and ‘Unload Project’. Now right click on the project node again and select ‘Edit <project...

TeamBuild Type Creation Wizard creates a file called ‘Tfsbuild.rsp’ with every build type. Using this, user can pass additional options to msbuild command line that gets executed on the build machine. It is quite useful, when user wants to override properties...

We have comprehensive inline documentation for the properties defined in TfsBuild.proj file. These are very commonly used properties. There are several additional properties and overridable targets defined in TeamBuild targets file ( Microsoft.TeamFoundationBuild...

Users will need to install Visual Studio Team Test edition (VSTT) or Visual Studio Team System edition (VSTS) along with TeamBuild to enjoy the complete feature set offered by TeamBuild. Here are some important features enabled by installing VSTT...

There are two approaches for building binaries targeting .NET 1.1 and .NET 1.0 in TeamBuild. Approach# 1 1. Upgrade VS2003/VS2002 project files to VS2005 using VS2005 upgrade wizard. 2. Install the msbuild toolkit from here . This toolkit...

Performing incremental builds in TeamBuild is very straight forward. Here are some details on how to get it setup: Create the build type that you would want to do incremental builds with and perform the first build. This will create the required...

We have been seeing a huge customer request on how to publish a website in TeamBuild build process. Below, I have attempted to detail what I did to get this to work. This should help you get started! I started with the goal of creating a virtual...

TeamBuild implemented ‘Get’ task for syncing sources. This task is same as ‘tf get’ , the command line utility to sync sources. Properties Supported by Get Task Workspace The workspace used to get sources Version ...

Few weeks ago, I worked with TSDT product team in setting up infrastructure for publishing test results into our TeamBuild dogfood server. This is one of the coolest features offered by TeamBuild and TSDT integration. The thought behind this feature was...

There are few things to note while evaluating ASP.NET projects under TeamBuild. We had several instances of our customers selecting ‘Any CPU’ configuration while building default ASP.NET web projects. By ‘default’ I mean, an ASP.NET project that is created...

Currently, TeamBuild does not have out of the box support to create workitems for test failures. I’ve attempted put some details below since this is a common request for several of our customers. I t might look complicated if you are going to skim through...

One of the enhancements in C++ compiler space for Whidbey is building Profile-Guided Optimized (PGO) builds. Profile-guided optimization lets you optimize an output file, where the optimizer uses data from test runs of the .exe or .dll file. The data...

1. We have now included a command line utility to manage builds. It is called TfsBuild.exe can be located at %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE. It is available in Build Machine SKU and Team Foundation Client SKU. Here is the screenshot...

Recently, I had an opportunity to answer couple of customer questions on building web sites with references under TeamBuild. Here are the details: If the user is using project-to-project (P2P) reference approach to reference a project in ASP.NET...