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TFS 2010 – What’s New On The Build Explorer?

The Queued Tab: So, as you can see not much has changed on the Queued tab of the build explorer since VSTS 2008, but if you look close, there are a few changes. 1. There is a new filter you can apply - “Only show builds requested by me”. This filter will Read More...
Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 9:39 AM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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TFS 2010 Beta1 – Build DEtails View Log View section

The picture above is of the Log View of the new Build Details View in Visual Studio Team System 2010. See my previous post on the Summary View for more information on the items above the words “Activity Log”. The log view can be seen by opening an in-progress Read More...
Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 2:55 PM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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tFS 2010 Beta1 – Build Details View Summary section

The picture above is of the new “Build Report” in TFS 2010. I prefer the term Build Details View, because it is not actually a TFS report object. The view has completely changed, so let me take you on a quick tour: 1. The first thing you may notice is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:23 PM by Jason Prickett | 5 Comments
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Keeping Version Control Labels When Team Builds Are Deleted in TFS 2008 SP1

We have had quite a few complaints about the fact that we delete the labels created during a build when the build is deleted. The reason this behavior was added was to keep from creating a ton of labels for CI builds. But some customers still want the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:42 AM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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Filtering the Build Status Change Event (BuildStatusChangeEvent)

In an previous post (long long ago), I described some scenarios around why you would want to subscribe to change the work item tracking subscription to the build completion event. The purpose there was to help users "correct" the subscription that came Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:10 AM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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Where's the TfsBuild.proj file for this Definition?

In Team Build 2005, the "definition" of the build was the same as the TfsBuild.proj file. However, in 2008, we changed this so that the TfsBuild.proj only held some of the information for the build. The rest of the information (like retention Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 8:58 AM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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Changing the recursion type for the initial "Get" that Team Build does

In Visual Studio Team System 2008, the build machine downloads the files that it needs to launch MSBuild before it creates any workspaces. Because this initial "get" is before MSBuild is called, users don't get much say in what gets downloaded. By default, Read More...
Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 8:27 AM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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Stopping a Build -> Cancelling a Workflow

This post continues my quest to learn more about Windows Workflow and share that experience with you. It assumes knowledge of Windows Workflow. If you don't understand some of the concepts please take a look at one of the books that I mentioned in my Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:11 AM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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My Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)

Team Build is a build workflow tool. It manages how and when builds are performed. Currently (in VS2005 and VS2008), that workflow was written in the language of MSBuild. This allows us a lot of flexibility and power on the machine that runs the build. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 7:59 AM by Jason Prickett | 4 Comments
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TFS 2008 - Running two Build Agents on the Same Machine

There have been at least a couple of forum posts from users that would like to run more than one build agent on the same physical machine. The normal reason is that they have more than one TFS server and want to use the machine as a build agent for both. Read More...
Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 2:20 PM by Jason Prickett | 10 Comments
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Creating Fake builds in Orcas with IBuildDefinition.CreateManualBuild

In my last post about creating a Fake build , I gave you the code to create a fake build in V1 and I promised to give you the code to do the same thing in Orcas. So, here it is. This code won't work in Beta1 or Beta2, but should work as is when you get Read More...
Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 11:28 AM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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Adding a Fake Build to the Team Build Server

Why would anyone want to add a fake a build to the team build server? Well, there is one very big reason - Integration with Team System. If you don't use Team Build V1 to build your sources (for whatever reason), you may want to at least store some build Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 10:58 AM by Jason Prickett | 6 Comments
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Visual Studio 2005 Client starting builds on an Orcas server and build machine

One of the problems that we are seeing pop up internally is with groups that for whatever reason have not upgraded their clients to Orcas, but are starting builds with VS 2005 clients on an Orcas server. This scenario is completely supported, but they Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:26 AM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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Build Type BuildDirectoryPath => Build Agent Working Directory

In Team Build version 1, all information about how to perform the build was stored in the Build Type, which was basically a folder that contained the TfsBuild.proj file, the WorkspaceMapping.xml file, and the TfsBuild.rsp file. In the Orcas release, we Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 9:18 AM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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Queuing a build in PowerShell

I just read Aaron's post "Team Build Object Model - Queueing a Build" and I just had convert his code to PowerShell (for those of us that just hate waiting for code to compile!). So, here is how to Queue a build in PowerShell (uses my Get-BuildServer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:37 AM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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