TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

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Guide to Team Build 2008

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Guide to Team Build 2008

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[Team System] TFS 2008 - Better Build Support, But Good Enough?

Johan Danforth's Blog — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:17:51 GMT

I picked up the blog post written by Buck Hodges today about some of the new features related to Build

[Team System] TFS 2008 - Better Build Support, But Good Enough?

Johan's Blog — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:17:58 GMT

I picked up the blog post written by Buck Hodges today about some of the new features related to Build

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

StevenIBSI — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:15:16 GMT

Is there a way to set up a build Trigger so that a build will not occur until there is not check-in activity for at least x minutes.

This way if multiple users are doing checkins the build will not happen until everyone is done checking in.

Thanks

-- Steven

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

StevenIBSI — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:39:44 GMT

So it appears if I set the "Accumlate check-ins ntil the prior build finishes and then Check Build no more often than every 15 minutes it almost does what I wanted.

But the problem is that the very first check-in started a build, then all the subsequent checkins were included in a build 15 minutes later. So I wanted all the check-ins in 1 build and they got split between two build.

I would like another checkbox labeled;

"Wait for X minutes after the last check-in before starting the build."

so then my "group" of check-ins would all be in the same build.

Thanks

-- Steven

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

buckh — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:58:23 GMT

Steven, I see what you mean. When we designed the feature, we looked at it from the perspective that you might be the only person checking in and would therefore like the build to be kicked off immediately rather than having 15 minutes of dead time.

How often do you have multiple people checking in during a short window where you want them all built together vs. individuals checking in periodically but not so close together?

Thanks for the feedback.

Buck

Dave McKinstry on Build in TFS 2008

Buck Hodges — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:31:34 GMT

Dave McKinstry has written a couple of posts on his experiences with Team Build in TFS 2008. In Introduction

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

Steve — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:53:00 GMT

CruiseControl has a notion of a delay after a checkin before the build kicks off; I think that would address StevenIBSI's concern (which I share). Let me say that builds will not kick off for x seconds (default 0) after a checkin, and keep everything else you have as-is. I think a common scenario would be to set this to 60 seconds or so, which would let one developer do a few checkins or several developers check in related work.

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

buckh — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:19:34 GMT

Steve, since we've heard this several times from former CC.NET users, we'll consider this for the next release after TFS 2008 (Rosario).

Buck

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TFS Build "Workspace already mapped" Issue

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re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

Kevin Plotner — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:47:55 GMT

I'll be setting this up in a virtual environment ASAP. Just finished VSTS/TFS.

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

rakesh — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:03:30 GMT

Hi.

I have set up the Build server - app. server and Data tier.

But when i process the build it fails, although the files related to build are put in the build server shared file path.and the status of build is failed. i don't know the exact reason.

and one more thing is that..can u any one tell me what is build server and build agent. how to install build agent.?

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

buckh — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:24:18 GMT

Rakesh, you'll need to run the setup for it under the Build folder on the DVD, if I remember correctly (there should be instruction in the TFS Installation Guide).

For debugging issues with build, I'd recommend the build MSDN forum.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=481&SiteID=1

Buck

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

MrEd — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:52:03 GMT

Been reading for an hour and I haven't found this one from anybody else. My build was set to run nightly on weekdays at 10pm, by the previous SCM. I unclicked Friday as I do not intend to come in on the weekend to check these builds. (I know, "noobies have no dedication to the craft") I set it to run on Sundays, so I would have a build on Monday mornings. The first week I had some run, some not. A little research and I see the "run even if no checkins" is OFF. I reset it to ON and schedule a build in 10 minutes. It does not run. That night -Thursday- no build but -Friday - Saturday - Sunday the build runs at 10pm. I am looking at a list of days built and days skipped and it is skipping every Wednesday and Thursday and building on Friday and Saturday. My local calendar is accurate. What do I need to clear and reset?

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

buckh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:28:37 GMT

MrEd, the first day always depends on what you are doing. If the scheduled build has already run (or the server has already determined there was nothing to do) based on prior settings, changing the time will not queue another one. To do that, change the trigger to none, click OK to close the dialog and save the change to the server, then bring the dialog back up and change it to scheduled with a time 10 minutes into the future. By changing the trigger to something different and then back again, you clear out all state with respect to the schedule. This is done so that you can go change the time for a scheduled build without triggering one every time you change the time.

Regarding Friday vs. Saturday, you may be hitting the issue described in the following thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsbuild/thread/b57f639c-3304-4129-9d0f-8b5edf25a1a2.

Buck

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

MrEdxoxo — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:20:27 GMT

I see what you are saying about new builds scheduled on the same day, but my builds are scheduled for 10pm. The new test build was scheduled for 10:15am the next day. "Build despite no changes" was checked. This being the first failure, I suspect I am dealing with the refusal to build on Thursday after failing on Wednesday.

That brings us back to the calendar slip. The known bug is similar, but different enough that I do not even suspect the same root cause. My problem is not an extra Friday poping up, but the whole week slipping 2 days back (or 5 days forward). The build is supposed to be OFF of Fri and Sat, but it is skipping Wed and Thr instead. The refusal to build on Thursdays would explain the failure to build the test build at 10:15am. The day following the first failure, would have been Thursday.

I have gone into my 2 build definitions and changed them. The first I reset to Monday only and then clicked Save All and closed. I then reopened it and reset the correct days. The second build I opened, reset to Monday, closed, reopened and reset the correct days. I will leave them and see how they run this week.

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

MrEdxoxo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:16:24 GMT

UPDATE:

Clearing the schedule and resetting it and saving the changes made no difference in either method. Both of my nightly builds refused to run on Wednesday and Thursday. I will wager any sum that they run Friday and Saturday even though those days are turned OFF in the checklists. I am considering renaming the build server HAL. Sometimes it is easier to conform to the reality. Monday I will turn all days on and see what it HAL wants to do.

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

Jason — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:07:12 GMT

Hi Mr Ed (or should I call you Dave ;)

Could we continue digging into this by opening a forum post. I want to help, but communicating thru Buck's blog is a little cumbersome. Here is a link to the Team Build forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/tfsbuild/threads/

Thanks,

Jason

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

Jerry Mcquire — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:52:35 GMT

It is possible to have a build definition in different team projects. You can queue these build definitions. When that happens two builds can run both (in parallel). When both builds start unit testing (with code coverage), the both use VSPerfMon. It seems that there might be only one VSPerfMon process alive. How does the build handle this scenario?

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

buckh — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:07:07 GMT

Jerry, I think it may be a limitation of VSPerfMon that it cannot handle this scenario.

Buck

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

jcorker — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:53:19 GMT

Hi, are there any known problems with setting the build no more often than every # minutes? I have tried setting this to 120, I get around two builds out of it in a day and then realise a week later it has not been doing integration builds since.

The downside to not having this is our builds get queued up and they are not quick so you can be waiting hours for them all to run through.

Thanks,

John

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

buckh — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:22:19 GMT

John, there's a bug in the RTM version of 2008 that was fixed in TFS SP1 where accumulation intervals greater than 59 minutes do not work. Installing TFS SP1 for 2008 on your server should fix the problem.

TFS SP1 download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9E40A5B6-DA41-43A2-A06D-3CEE196BFE3D&displaylang=en

Buck

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

vishrut — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:10:05 GMT

Hi,

I need a small help from you regarding a new requirement in our project for TFS Build.

When we are deploying the builds from Build server to Dev server, we want to take back up of existing files on Dev server.Currently we take bakcup by manually copying the files before deploying the build.These files will be replaced with new files when builds will be deployed.

We want something like this in TFSBuild.proj file. Step1 we should take backup of files (deployed by earlier build)at some other location in dev node.

Step 2 We should make the builds and have the builds ready in Build server.

Step 3 We should push/deploy build/files to Dev Server. (At present we do Step 2 and Step 3 only)

The major problem we are facing is that the place where we deploy our files in Dev server is a folder where many other files and folders are also present. This folder is common folder for many other builds/apps.

Now if we want to achieve the thing I have discussed above,I have one approach here.

since we maintain a list of files and folders with there paths to be backed up in a text file, we can use this file with ReadLinesFromFile Task and can take the backup of files and folders specified in the text file to our backup location.

Please suggest me if you have any other idea.

to me,I want the collection of files and folders being copied to dev/QA server from Build server as a part of build process. It would be great if you could help me here. I am in dire need of solution.

you can mail me at vishrut.104@gmail.com or vishrut.singh@ef.com

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

buckh — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:34:10 GMT

Vishrut,

To get the file list before the build drops, you'd have to write a file logger for msbuild and hook the appropriate events, which is probably not worth the effort to get it right.

Also, the current build may have different files in it than the previous build.

What if as part of the current build you save a list that you create as part of AfterDropBuild, and that list, such the CSV file you describe, would describe the build accurately? Prior to deploying the new build, you could grab that list from a known location, which would be the list for the previous build, do the backup that you need, then deploy and update the file list in the known location. If I understand what you're after, I think that or something along those lines may give you a reasonably simple solution.

Buck

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

TabbyCool — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:43:44 GMT

We are using Team Build 2008 to run a continuous integration build, but I was wondering, is it possible to run a build on my local machine before checking in? If my changes are going to break the server build, I'd rather detect this and avoid breaking anything on the server - is there a way of running or emulating a Team Build project on my local machine, or can this only be done on the TFS server?

Thanks

re: TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

buckh — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:10:39 GMT

TabbyCool, what are describing is a feature we call gated checkin that we have built into 2010. You can either go with full gated checkin where are checkins are queued to be built and only checked in if the build is successful, or you can submit a "buddy build" which is a build with a shelveset specified.

2010 beta 2 will be available very soon. It will have a go-live license (meaning that you can use it in production).

If you need a solution for 2008, I'd recommend that you check out the BuddyBuild project on CodePlex: http://buddybuild.codeplex.com/.

Buck