{"id":3563,"date":"2006-08-29T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2006\/08\/29\/team-build-blogger-aaron-hallberg\/"},"modified":"2006-08-29T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T15:31:00","slug":"team-build-blogger-aaron-hallberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/team-build-blogger-aaron-hallberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Build blogger: Aaron Hallberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/aaronhallberg\/\">Aaron Hallberg<\/a>, a developer working on Team Build,&nbsp;has taken the plunge and started a blog.&nbsp; Those of you who frequent the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.microsoft.com\/MSDN\/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=481&amp;SiteID=1\">MSDN Team Build forum<\/a> will probably recognize the name.&nbsp; You now have a blog to go with the name!<\/p>\n<p>After getting <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/aaronhallberg\/archive\/2006\/08\/29\/730357.aspx\">post #1<\/a> out of the way, Aaron shows you how to insert custom build step from a custom task.&nbsp; The build steps are the messages that are displayed in the build report window.&nbsp; For example, you would want to insert a build step if your custom task takes a significant amount of time, so that the person running the build has some insight into what&#8217;s going on.&nbsp; Also, it can be useful to insert error messages as build steps if it&#8217;s an important error that you want to have higher visibility.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/aaronhallberg\/archive\/2006\/08\/29\/730447.aspx\">Adding BuildSteps to Team Build through a Custom Task <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team Build displays Build Steps in the build report form within Visual Studio.&nbsp; By default, build steps are added at various points during the course of a build &#8211; while getting sources (in the Get task), compiling solutions \/ projects, copying files to the drop location, etc.&nbsp; Team Build allows users to insert their own build steps using the publicly accessible BuildStore web service &#8211; in particular, the AddBuildStep and UpdateBuildStep methods.&nbsp; The following sample (I make no claims as to the awesomeness or lack thereof of this sample, etc.) TeamBuildTask class illustrates how this can be done.<br><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Hallberg, a developer working on Team Build,&nbsp;has taken the plunge and started a blog.&nbsp; Those of you who frequent the MSDN Team Build forum will probably recognize the name.&nbsp; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-team-build","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Aaron Hallberg, a developer working on Team Build,&nbsp;has taken the plunge and started a blog.&nbsp; Those of you who frequent the MSDN Team Build forum will probably recognize the name.&nbsp; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}