Buck Hodges

You can schedule builds in Orcas

February 7, 2007 Feb 7, 2007 02/7/07

Buck Hodges

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.  ...

Generating documentation from code with Team Build

February 3, 2007 Feb 3, 2007 02/3/07

Buck Hodges

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 ...

“Way behind the combination of Nant/CruiseControl.Net”

January 27, 2007 Jan 27, 2007 01/27/07

Buck Hodges

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...

Using FinalBuilder with Team Foundation Build

January 26, 2007 Jan 26, 2007 01/26/07

Buck Hodges

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...

Incremental gets with Team Build and the list of files that changed

January 16, 2007 Jan 16, 2007 01/16/07

Buck Hodges

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 ...

Orcas Team Build Continuous Integration spec is now available

January 6, 2007 Jan 6, 2007 01/6/07

Buck Hodges

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 ...

How to add your own message in the build report

December 16, 2006 Dec 16, 2006 12/16/06

Buck Hodges

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 ...

Third party add-in: Test Manager Add-In for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers

December 12, 2006 Dec 12, 2006 12/12/06

Buck Hodges

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. ...