Manish Agarwal
Issue: - I would like to invoke a specific target just after each solution is compiled....
Date: 05/09/2006
Issue - StopOnFirstFailure flag is respected when we are building multiple solutions and find the...
Date: 05/09/2006
Scenario - We are building multiple solutions in our Team Build project file. We want to halt the...
Date: 05/08/2006
Is it a good idea to use the same machine as "build machine" and "team foundation server"? It is not...
Date: 04/19/2006
Scenario I have set up a Team Build Type which builds an entire system consisting of multiple...
Date: 04/18/2006
Edit the tfsbuild.proj and over ride the label task definition. Do note that changes in Name and...
Date: 04/12/2006
For eaxmple in your tfsbuild.proj, the value of DropLocation is \machine\drop1 and you want to...
Date: 04/12/2006
Objective of sample task Get all the affected change sets between this build and the previous...
Date: 04/06/2006
Redirecting the copy of output assemblies for individual solutions to specified subfolders at drop site in Team Build
Team Build overrides the output directories that are specified in the individual project files, and...
Date: 03/24/2006
Scenario - I have a public class (named class1) with only internal constructors. Assume this class...
Date: 03/24/2006
You can set the value of property in the following manner pass the value in proj/targets file inside...
Date: 03/02/2006
Problem - Build two projects referencing the assembly of same name but of different version fails in...
Date: 02/01/2006
Today I found that raising the error message was not enough for the msbuild to stop and invoke the...
Date: 01/27/2006
AT degradation when multiple instances of GenCheckinNotesUpdateWortItem task are happening concurrently ...
Investigation for the observation made in post. "CPU consumption on AT went up to the maximum of 38%...
Date: 01/25/2006
Performance data for GenCheckinNotesUpdateWortItem task (all times in ms) 1. For MSTV project (~ 17...
Date: 01/25/2006
GenCheckinNotesUpdateWorkitem task is the most expensive and takes most of the build time. The...
Date: 01/25/2006
As a part of the standard build process, we first get the latest sources from the repository, apply...
Date: 01/25/2006
Now I am a Clockwork Orange
Date: 01/21/2006
In Team Build, AdditionalReferencePath items (defined in the tfsbuild.proj) are used to specify the...
Date: 01/04/2006
Building solutions that reference to assemblies belonging to different team project Scenario Assume...
Date: 12/22/2005
What is the best way to override the properties, items and targets defined in Tfsbuild.proj and...
Date: 12/21/2005
User wants to configure a common set of fxcop rules and use them for all projects/solutions. Does he...
Date: 12/11/2005
Desktop build not stopping immediately on build break ... Details If I am building two solutions...
Date: 12/06/2005
You can use MSbuild exec task to execute any system command. The task also gives you option to...
Date: 12/06/2005
Workspace represents the client side view of the source control repository. When you create new...
Date: 12/02/2005
The code sample describes how you can invoke a particular target (i.e. init) multiple times at...
Date: 11/29/2005
Please note that desktop clean for VC projects is not happening in post beta3 bits of Team Build....
Date: 11/15/2005
Targets file is any valid MSBuild script that contains the definitions of targets, tasks,...
Date: 11/11/2005
Team Build uses MSBuild to build sources. MSBuild engine runs the build in two passes. The first...
Date: 11/10/2005
Lately there have been a lot of questions about CreateNewWorkItem task. Today I will be sharing some...
Date: 10/21/2005
You have two options Manually edit the WorkspaceMappings.xml file, which is present in...
Date: 10/13/2005
Why invoke targets through call to “MSBuild” instead of using DependsOnTargets and dividing up the...
Date: 10/11/2005
Scenario We have a common project that contains company wide logic that rarely changes and almost...
Date: 10/05/2005
Salient points about file references File reference is used to reference outer system assemblies...
Date: 09/28/2005
Consider a simple solution (OfficeSolution.sln) that has one main project (OfficeSolution.csproj)....
Date: 09/27/2005
In this entry I will be discussing about project to project references. I will be enumerating about...
Date: 09/26/2005
Single solution is best for small size projects. The most scalable and efficient way for managing...
Date: 09/23/2005
In beta3 you have better control on the way tests are executed. Some common scenarios are:- To run...
Date: 09/22/2005
Question :- I was building 3 projects. The sln and csproj files of the first and thirld project...
Date: 09/19/2005
Increasing the verbosity of logger Team build invokes logger with normal verbosity. It is done to...
Date: 08/04/2005
MS Build evaluates the condition of the target first and then do the dependency check. For example,...
Date: 07/27/2005
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than...
Date: 07/20/2005
Team Build has a different interpretation for RunCodeAnalysis flag. The standard definition...
Date: 07/14/2005
Build process in Team Build is highly extensible. A custom step/task can be introduced at any build...
Date: 07/12/2005
While converting the sources and makefile.inc to .nativeproj file, if you get following error: -...
Date: 07/07/2005
Hi guys, this is Manish Agarwal I am Software Design Engineer at Microsoft India Development Center,...
Date: 07/05/2005