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Patrick Carnahan, a developer on Team Build, put together the following guide to the basic, as well as a few advanced, features of Team Build in TFS 2008.  It's a great way to get started with continuous integration and other features in TFS 2008. Team Build – Continuous Integration One of the new and most compelling features of Team Foun...

I ran across the following post by James Dawson and thought it may be of interest to folks trying to do CI with TFS 2005.  Of course, you'll find CI as part of the product in TFS 2008. TeamBuild Plug-in for CruiseControl.NET I've been meaning to write this post for a couple of months now as a follow-up to a session that Colin and I gave...

In either TFS 2005 or TFS 2008, you can delete the test results published against a build (How to: Publish Test Results).  However, discovering this feature may be difficult, and I didn't find it on MSDN in a quick search of the docs. What you'll need to do is to bring up the build details (aka the build report) in Visual Studio.  Then ex...

We changed the build agent setup such that the default presented in the setup GUI is to use Network Service as the build service account.  One big advantage of doing this is that the Network Service account doesn't have a password that expires, removing one annoying administrative issue. Once you install the build agent, you need to add the s...

The following question came up today, and I thought it would be useful to post. One thing I didn't mention was what happens in the upgrade process when you move from a 2005 server to a 2008 server.  The 2008 server stores in the database some properties that were previously stored either in the tfsbuild.proj (build agent computer, build direc...

If part of your build process is to check in a file, such as an updated version file, you wouldn't want that checkin to kick off another build.  You'd be stuck in an infinite loop. To prevent that problem, simply put the string ***NO_CI*** in the checkin comment.  The code that examines a changeset to determine whether to kick off a new ...

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, including Team Foundation Server 2008, is now available for download.  As mentioned in Soma's post, Beta 2, unlike beta 1, includes the "go live" provision in the license, meaning that you can use it in production.  We've been using TFS 2008 beta 2 on our main internal dogfood server now for the last two months ...

A question came up a couple of times recently about an issue with the timestamps on the files involved in a build always being the current time.  The issue is that folks have customized their deployment process to deploy only files where the timestamps are newer.  Folks then ask for an option to have get set the timestamp to the timestamp...

The next MSDN chat is next Wednesday.  I'm going to try to be on the first one. Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. There will be two sessions: Join the chat on Wednesday...

Martin Woodward has posted a nice list of properties from Team Build that he has found useful.  While some of the properties were also in TFS 2005, quite a few are new for TFS 2008 (aka Orcas). Some of the properties, such as RequestedFor, are properties of the current build that are set by the server, and thus you wouldn't set them your...