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How to add custom build step messages to teambuild process

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 02/03/2006

Creating Skeleton Builds in Teambuild to Publish Test Results

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 01/25/2006

Connecting People

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 01/18/2006

I'm back :)

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 01/18/2006

Gijo on VSTF migration tools

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 11/14/2005

Desktop Build – where are the commands?

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 11/14/2005

Using Password Protected Signing Keys in TeamBuild

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 11/08/2005

Measuring Performance of TeamBuild Build Process

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 11/03/2005

Mission statements and vision statements. What are they?

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 11/03/2005

Repositories for TeamBuild and migration tools

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 11/03/2005

TeamBuild Resources

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 11/02/2005

Do you know: editing VS project files made easy

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 11/02/2005

Passing options to msbuild command line in TeamBuild process

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 11/02/2005

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...

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/27/2005

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...

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/27/2005

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....

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/26/2005

Incremental Builds using TeamBuild

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/24/2005

Publishing Web Sites in TeamBuild

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/21/2005

Examining Get Task in TeamBuild

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/21/2005

Publishing Test Results in TeamBuild

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/19/2005

Building Default ASP.NET Projects in TeamBuild

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/18/2005

Create Workitems for Test Failures in TeamBuild

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/14/2005

Building PGO Builds using TeamBuild

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/10/2005

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...

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/07/2005

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...

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/04/2005

Who am I?

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

Author: nagarajp Date: 10/04/2005