Deserializing Process Parameters
Team Foundation Build 2010 allows each build process template to expose its own parameters to the build definition editor as well as to the person queuing the build. When using the API it can be...
View ArticleDogfooding Team Foundation Build in Developer Division
My blog has been idle for some time because of two projects that have been keeping me very busy over the past few months. Firstly, I’ve been working on the second edition of Inside the Microsoft Build...
View ArticleDogfooding Team Foundation Build: By The Numbers
In the spirit of GrantH’s and BHarry’s posts outlining various dogfooding statistics it seems fitting to start my blog post series with some Team Foundation Build specific statistics. To put these...
View ArticleDogfooding Team Foundation Build: Infrastructure
One of the questions I received about my last post was: Why so many controllers? Which leads nicely into a description of the different pieces of hardware involved in our build process. All of our...
View ArticleVS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta
The VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta has been released! Brian has details on his blog but I wanted to draw attention to the Team Build fixes in this service pack, what’s great is that some of these fixes directly...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Build Activities Documentation Now Available
The TFS technical writers have been busy putting together documentation about the activities that ship with Team Foundation Build 2010 and this is now available:...
View ArticleReturning Values From An AgentScope
Introduction While Team Build will serialize workflow variables into an AgentScope, if they are updated within the AgentScope the updated values will not be serialized back when the AgentScope...
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Splitting Team Build Outputs Into Folders
One of Team Build’s behaviors that I often get questions about is it overriding the OutDir property and putting all of the build outputs in a single directory per platform and configuration. The...
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Updating Associated Changesets and Work Items without Updating Work Items
In Team Build 2008 when you disabled updating work items as part of the build Team Build still listed the associated changesets and work items in the build detail. In Team Build 2010 you cannot turn...
View ArticleDogfooding Team Foundation Build: By The Numbers (December 2011)
Just over a year ago I posted some statistics about DevDiv’s Team Foundation Build implementation, the time has come to update those statistics. Over the last 12 months we’ve done an average of 11,000...
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