{"id":4631,"date":"2010-10-04T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T10:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2010\/10\/04\/dogfooding-tfs-build-in-developer-division\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T22:43:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T22:43:36","slug":"dogfooding-tfs-build-in-developer-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/dogfooding-tfs-build-in-developer-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogfooding TFS Build in Developer Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think, in a post a few months ago, I wrote about the latest evolution of dogfooding TFS within Developer Division &#8211; adoption of TFS build for much of our build automation needs.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been a large undertaking because our build process is huge and incredibly complex.&nbsp; Also, I&#8217;m talking about build in a large sense here &#8211; everything from checkin automation systems to the big &#8220;official&#8221; nightly build (there are actually about 80 of them every night).&nbsp; The man behind the effort is William Bartholomew.\nWilliam is a former MVP turned Microsoft employee and has brought his extensive knowledge of the VS ALM tools to our central build team and has been revitalizing the build process.&nbsp; His work has resulted in a number of fixes and product improvements.&nbsp; Some have already been released in the last Power Tools release.&nbsp; We&#8217;re going to try to get out more with each of the next few Power Tools releases.&nbsp; Some will have to wait for the next major VS release.\nWilliam is starting a blog series on the work he has done and would be good reading for anyone who really wants to understand the guts of a complex build process and to learn how to make the tools sing.&nbsp; You can see the intro post here: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willbar\/archive\/2010\/10\/01\/dogfooding-team-foundation-build-in-developer-division.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willbar\/archive\/2010\/10\/01\/dogfooding-team-foundation-build-in-developer-division.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think, in a post a few months ago, I wrote about the latest evolution of dogfooding TFS within Developer Division &#8211; adoption of TFS build for much of our build automation needs.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been a large undertaking because our build process is huge and incredibly complex.&nbsp; Also, I&#8217;m talking about build in a large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I think, in a post a few months ago, I wrote about the latest evolution of dogfooding TFS within Developer Division &#8211; adoption of TFS build for much of our build automation needs.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been a large undertaking because our build process is huge and incredibly complex.&nbsp; Also, I&#8217;m talking about build in a large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}