Nagaraju Palla's WebLog

The following sample task illustrates how to add custom build step messages to the build process....

Date: 02/03/2006

There are several requests on how to publish test results to a TFS server without really creating a...

Date: 01/25/2006

Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised by my college mate, a good friend, Jothibasu contacting me. He...

Date: 01/18/2006

Oh, it is already 1½ months since I blogged. I feel time has been just flying, had a good time with...

Date: 01/18/2006

Gijo, test lead for VSTF migration tools has started blogging. He has got plenty of first hand...

Date: 11/14/2005

In a team environment, developers would need to use the same build configuration that is used to...

Date: 11/14/2005

As you might already know, a managed component can be uniquely identified by assembly signing. Refer...

Date: 11/08/2005

The enterprise builds are huge and take a significant amount of build time. MSBuild offers an option...

Date: 11/03/2005

I always have this slight confusion around where to draw the line between mission and vision...

Date: 11/03/2005

As all of you know, the best way to gauge the quality of software is to assess through the real...

Date: 11/03/2005

Rob Caron posted a nice collection of resources on TeamBuild. Some additional teambuild blogs are:...

Date: 11/02/2005

In VS 2005, you can edit project files (.csproj, .vbproj etc) in VS itself while they are loaded....

Date: 11/02/2005

TeamBuild Type Creation Wizard creates a file called ‘Tfsbuild.rsp’ with every build type. Using...

Date: 11/02/2005

We have comprehensive inline documentation for the properties defined in TfsBuild.proj file. These...

Date: 10/27/2005

Users will need to install Visual Studio Team Test edition (VSTT) or Visual Studio Team System...

Date: 10/27/2005

There are two approaches for building binaries targeting .NET 1.1 and .NET 1.0 in TeamBuild....

Date: 10/26/2005

Performing incremental builds in TeamBuild is very straight forward. Here are some details on how to...

Date: 10/24/2005

We have been seeing a huge customer request on how to publish a website in TeamBuild build process....

Date: 10/21/2005

TeamBuild implemented ‘Get’ task for syncing sources. This task is same as ‘tf get’, the command...

Date: 10/21/2005

Few weeks ago, I worked with TSDT product team in setting up infrastructure for publishing test...

Date: 10/19/2005

There are few things to note while evaluating ASP.NET projects under TeamBuild. We had several...

Date: 10/18/2005

Currently, TeamBuild does not have out of the box support to create workitems for test failures....

Date: 10/14/2005

One of the enhancements in C++ compiler space for Whidbey is building Profile-Guided Optimized (PGO)...

Date: 10/10/2005

  1. We have now included a command line utility to manage builds. It is called TfsBuild.exe can be...

Date: 10/07/2005

Recently, I had an opportunity to answer couple of customer questions on building web sites with...

Date: 10/04/2005

Finally, I’m getting there! I’ve been reading blogs of my friends and esteemed colleagues and I’m...

Date: 10/04/2005