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Facts about Running Builds in Parallel with Team Build
TeamBuild can build one build definition from a single Team Project at a time. can build multiple build definitions from different Team Project. MSBuild has the capability to use multiple CPUs to build projects in parallel and therefore speed up your...
Screen Gallery: Installing Team Build 2008
Screenshots from a successful Team Build installation
TFS 2008: Team Build doesn't get subfolders of team build type folder by default
In TFS 2005 subfolders of your team build type folder were copied recursively to the build temp directory. In TFS 2008 only the contents w/o recursion is copied. To change this behavior, Aaron tells us , you need to modify the following line <add key...
Documentation: Team Foundation Server SDK (online version)
From the contents: Team Foundation Server Extensibility Team Foundation Server SDK Architecture How to: Run Team Foundation Server SDK Samples Team Foundation Core Services Work Item Tracking Extensibility Source Control Extensibility Data Warehouse Extensibility...
How code churn is calculated in TFS 2005/2008
Code churn [1] in TFS 2005 and TFS 2008 is calculated using a very simple algorithm: inserted + changed + deleted lines [2]. This is done independently of the contents of the line, which means that everything - incl. comments, blank lines, etc. - is counted...
Enable logging to troubleshooting Team System issues
Here’s a list of how to enable logging for the various client and server components of VIsual Studio Team System: TFS Client (Visual Studio IDE and command line tools) : devenv.exe.config (for Visual Studio IDE), tf.exe.config (for command line...
[Screen Gallery] Setting up a dedicated build machine: Installing & Configuring Team Foundation Build
Note : Make sure to read the Installation Guide before installing this software. What do I need it for? You need " Team Foundation Build " to set up a dedicated build server. Why should I do that? Can't I use the TFS itself? A build usually...
[Team Build] Why is the "DropBuild" target *after* the "AfterDropBuild" target?
People tend to ask me why the order for the build-in Team Build targets usually is: BeforeSomething CoreSomething AfterSomething Something (Replace "Something" with a action like "Get", "Compile", "DropBuild", or similar ...) You can find the execution...