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October 2005 - Posts

Properties and targets defined in TeamBuild process (Microsoft.TeamFoundationBuild.targets only)

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.targets Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 6:39 PM by nagarajp | 2 Comments

Features enabled by installing VSTS or VSTT on TeamBuild machine

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 or VSTS: Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:38 PM by nagarajp | 0 Comments

Building binaries targeting .NET 1.1 and .NET 1.0 in TeamBuild

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 can build msbuild Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:48 PM by nagarajp | 11 Comments

Incremental Builds using TeamBuild

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 workspace, Read More...
Posted Monday, October 24, 2005 11:55 AM by nagarajp | 0 Comments

Publishing Web Sites in TeamBuild

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 directory Read More...
Posted Friday, October 21, 2005 8:01 PM by nagarajp | 1 Comments

Examining Get Task in TeamBuild

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 You can specify a version by: Date/time Read More...
Posted Friday, October 21, 2005 2:04 PM by nagarajp | 8 Comments

Publishing Test Results in TeamBuild

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:36 PM by nagarajp | 0 Comments

Building Default ASP.NET Projects in TeamBuild

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005 6:33 PM by nagarajp | 2 Comments

Create Workitems for Test Failures in TeamBuild

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 5:21 PM by nagarajp | 0 Comments

Building PGO Builds using TeamBuild

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 3:04 PM by nagarajp | 0 Comments

Improvements from Beta2 to Beta3 in TeamBuild

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 3:02 PM by nagarajp | 0 Comments

Using Web References in ASP.NET projects from TeamBuild

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 project, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 4:16 PM by nagarajp | 0 Comments

Who am I?

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 3:47 PM by nagarajp | 2 Comments
 
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