When we posted the Orcas Team Build Continuous Integration Spec, you may have noticed that there was no support for scheduling builds. We implemented build scheduling as a Design Change Request (DCR). That meant that we had to present a justification for the feature, a spec, and how long it would take to implement and test. By the...
Brian Keller replied to an internal email thread discussing generating documentation from code as part of a build. If you are looking to do the same, these links should be helpful. Here's what Brian wrote. I just wanted to point out that there are several MSBuild targets available for Sandcastle which should make it pretty straightforwa...
I was reading through some customer feedback about VSTS and TFS. There were a lot of positive comments in there. I was looking for the negatives, though, because I want to know where we're missing the mark (perhaps by miles). This is one that really resonated with me. "The Build Machine aspect of Team Foundation Server is way behi...
Via Richard Hundhausen, I learned that the folks at FinalBuilder posted an article on their web site about how to get FinalBuilder working with Team Build via FinalBuilder's custom MSBuild task. If you use FinalBuilder, you may want to check that out.tags: tfs, team foundation server, team build, msbuild, final builder
After you learn five things about Aaron that you didn't know, he'll show you how to do an incremental get without necessarily doing an incremental build. Doing an Incremental Get in Team Build In Team Build v1.0, it is not possible, without some trickeration, to do an incremental get without also doing an incremental build. (The process for d...
Lorenzo Barbieri wrote about a tool on CodePlex called TFSBuildManager. I didn't know about this one. It's a tool written by Dudu Shmaya. The CodePlex project page has the following about the project. TFSBuildManager TFSBuildManager is a utility to manage Team Foundation build types in an environment other than Visual Studio. Mai...
Back in early December, I wrote the post, More on the Orcas features for Team Build, that described many of the new features that we are adding for Orcas, elaborating on what Brian Harry had written in his TFS Roadmap post. I'm very happy to say that later in December, we finished the implementation of those features, and they'll be in the ne...
If you use the AssemblyInfoTask to stamp the version numbers for your assemblies that you build with MSBuild as part of your Team Build process, you may run into the "Y2K7" problem. The version number is stored as a 16-bit (yes, 16 not 32) unsigned integer. With the format YMMDD, January 1, 2007 becomes 70101, which is 70,101 and doesn'...
If you've ever wanted to add your own message in the "Build Steps" section of the detailed build report, Aaron Hallberg provides a custom task to do it.Aaron, along with the rest of the team, had been focused on finishing up the continuous integration feature for Team Build. I'm happy to say that we got it finished and checked into the main-l...
Many customers have expressed their disappointment with the fact that test lists (.vsmdi files) can only be created and managed in VSTS for Testers or VSTS Suite, leaving VSTS for Developers users in a bind. There is now an add-in from Ekobit that solves this problem! Check it out!Here's the announcement on Ognjen Bajic's blog. Test Man...
