Team Foundation Build 2010 allows each build process template to expose its own parameters to the build definition editor as well as to the person queuing the build. When using the API it can be confusing to see that these parameters are stored as a string...

One of the first things you’ll notice when you create a custom XAML workflow activity to use in Team Foundation Build is that all of the Team Foundation Build activities disappear from the toolbox. The reason for this is that when you’re editing a custom...

Just a quick blog post to make some recommendations about how to name custom workflow activities: Use VerbNoun instead of NounVerb (e.g. CheckAvailableDiskSpace not DiskSpaceCheck). Don’t suffix with Activity (e.g. CheckAvailableDiskSpace not CheckAvailableDiskSpaceActivity...