Automate SharePoint Solution Builds with Visual Studio Extensions For Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) 1.3

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re: Automate SharePoint Solution Builds with Visual Studio Extensions For Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) 1.3

Sandeep — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:55:52 GMT

Important thing to mention here is that this will only work if your team has TFS Build Server...

re: Automate SharePoint Solution Builds with Visual Studio Extensions For Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) 1.3

Craig — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:37:55 GMT

This is great information, but I have Visual Source Safe 6.0. Can somebody please give an example of how a build script could be done using Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Source Safe?

re: Automate SharePoint Solution Builds with Visual Studio Extensions For Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) 1.3

Philipp Schmid — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:50:29 GMT

Do I have to install and configure VSeWSS 1.3 on the build machine? I am a bit concerned about the IIS modifications needed to get VSeWSS 1.3 running on a dev machine. Since the build doesn't need to deploy I wonder what is needed.

XCopy steps for configuring the build server to build VSeWSS 1.3 projects would be greatly appreciated!

Philipp

re: Automate SharePoint Solution Builds with Visual Studio Extensions For Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) 1.3

johnwpowell — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:29:38 GMT

You will need to install the extensions on the build machine. The extensions install a service which is used for packaging and deploying.

re: Automate SharePoint Solution Builds with Visual Studio Extensions For Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) 1.3

Philipp Schmid — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:10:01 GMT

Thx for your reply.

My concern is that IIS needs to be installed and configured on the build machine. Furthermore additional accounts need to be added to the Administrator group to run the service. These are things that are normally not done to a build machine. Is the service required for the packaging build step? Obviously we would not need to deploy on the build machine since its only job is to produce the WSP file.