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.

Main Features

• Start, stop a build
• Change build/s quality
• Delete, backup build/s
• Edit build type

News

• Release 1 Production is now available

Information

• Screenshots
• Planned Features

Looking at the screenshots, it looks quite useful.  There is a download from the releases page.

Dudu’s blog has quite a few posts about using the Team Build web service.  Here are links to some of them.

• Get List of Builds for Deleted Build Types
• Get Build Changes (ChangeSetData, Changeset, Change)
• How to Get a List of Build Statuses
• How to Get Build Types List

tags: tfs, team foundation, team build, codeplex, tfs api