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Sep 5, 2006
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Filtering the builds listed in work item tracking

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

As soon as folks start using Team Build, especially with some sort of continuous integration support, several issues pop up regarding the integration with work item tracking, including how not to have bad builds listed and how not to have every build from every build type listed.When TFS is installed, work item tracking adds a subscription, via bis...

Team Foundation ServerTeam Build
Sep 4, 2006
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Writing custom loggers for use with Team Build

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

If you you're interested in adding a custom logger to your build process in Team Build, Aaron walks you through the steps you need to know. Adding Custom Loggers to Team Build Yesterday we looked at using tasks to add customized build steps during a build.  Today I'd like to show you how to add a customized logger.

Team Foundation ServerTeam Build
Aug 29, 2006
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Team Build blogger: Aaron Hallberg

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Aaron Hallberg, a developer working on Team Build, has taken the plunge and started a blog.  Those of you who frequent the MSDN Team Build forum will probably recognize the name.  You now have a blog to go with the name!After getting post #1 out of the way, Aaron shows you how to insert custom build step from a custom task.  The...

Team Foundation ServerTeam Build
Aug 29, 2006
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Two good posts: Building projects with shared code and using Web Application Projects (WAP)

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Last week, the folks at Vertigo Software wrote a couple of really good posts involving Team Build.The first one, written by Jeff Atwood, is about building projects that have code shared from a different team project.  The crux of the problem is that in v1 Team Build doesn't allow mappings in the Workspace.xml file to span team projects.&n...

Team Foundation ServerTeam Build
Aug 28, 2006
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New Team Build content on MSDN

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

The VSTS User Education blog announced new MSDN content on using and customizing Team Build.  Check it out!New Team Foundation Build Customization Content on MSDN We are adding new content on explaining Team Founadation Build customization targets and tasks. Check out the following topics on MSDN: Understanding Team Foundation Configuration F...

Team Foundation ServerTeam Build
Aug 28, 2006
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Finding the changes between two labels in TFS version control

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Carl Daniel (code) and Robert Downey (code) each wrote and posted code to show the changesets between two labels in TFS version control.  They each took the same basic approach: call QueryLabels() to get the set of items in each label, find the highest changeset version for each set of items, and then call QueryHistory() with the range of vers...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTeam Build
Aug 24, 2006
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Dev lead for Team Build

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

For three years I worked on Team Foundation Server Version Control.  Most of my contributions were to the version control object model, the tf.exe command line, and general infrastructure.  After v1 shipped in March, we reorganized the TFS organization. Version 1 of TFS Team Build was developed by a small team in India, led by Gautam.&nbs...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTeam Build
Aug 23, 2006
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A tool for reporting expiration dates for RC and RTM trial editions of Team Foundation Server

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

As some customers have found out the hard way, the TFS release candidates have started to expire without warning at the end of the 6 month (180 days) period.  The TFS trial edition (RTM) will start to expire next month, again without warning.  It also expires 6 months after installation.This morning, Brian Harry posted a tool that you can...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTeam Build
Aug 17, 2006
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Squeet: Get RSS feeds in your inbox

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

I tried using an RSS aggregator, but it didn't fit the way that I wanted to work.  All of the feeds are trapped on the machine running the aggregator.  I wanted to be able to get to them from work and home.  Web-based aggregators solve that issue but still fell flat for me because I never remembered to go check them.  I wan...

Team BuildRandom
Aug 16, 2006
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Links to MSBuild tasks to extend your build system

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Build systems need to do all sorts of things, from updating web sites to deploying databases.  Often, the tasks needed to do these things are available, but finding them can be a challenge.  I've collected links to various MSBuild task collections that you can plug into your Team Build scripts.  Hopefully, you'll find something that ...

Team Foundation ServerTeam BuildMSBuild