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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...

Finally, I’m getting there! I’ve been reading blogs of my friends and esteemed colleagues and I’m excited about them. It is definitely a great way of sharing thoughts, emotions and connecting people. I’ve been reading an article on how to write for living...