tfsbuild

We use TFS 2010. There are a couple of projects with deployment steps which must know whether they are running on a dev machine or on the TFS build agent. Right now they check whether the build is from within Visual Studio assuming that only devs compile from VS. Alas, it means I cannot compile from the command line! So, my question is how an msbuild script can determine if it is being run by the TFS build agent? You have a few options: '$(BuildingInsideVisualStudio)' != '' '$(TeamBuildConstants)' != '' (supported in team Build 2008) '$(IsDesktopBuild)' == 'false' You can check either one to

I have been trying to find an answer to my question and could not find it; hence I will put the solution here. I hope it is helpful to others. Problem: I want my Wix project to build in TFS 2010 build process. As part of this, I want the source files location for my Wix to point to the build location of the TFS. For example, I want: <File Id="ABC" KeyPath="yes" source="C:\Builds\1\MyBuild\assembly.dll" /> to be: <File Id="ABC" KeyPath="yes" source="$(var.TFSLOCATION)\assembly.dll" /> The 'TFSLOCATION' is a wix property that needs to be populated with the location of TFS build. This needs to

I have been using SVN for a little while now. recently on a project I am using TFS. With the builds I like to append/update the build version number on the project output. I do this on the masterpage so that it is clearly visible on the application. Since the application could be running on multiple machines, it is handy information on which verison are running. I achive this in SVN world as: <!-- Import of the MSBuildCommunityTask targets --> <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MSBuildCommunityTasks\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets" /> <!-- to AssemblyInfo to include svn revision number

What is the best way to integrate nunit tests into TFS 2010? Is it via generic tests or is there a better approach to running them? Ideally I'd like to have the granularity of one generic test per test assembly and have a way to surface the results in the TFS build report. Rhapsody You can run nunit tests from command line and therefore you can automate these tests via your (Workflow) build template. Since there aren't a lot of custom build activities available for TFS 2010 yet, you could write your own to make sure that it integrates better with the TFS Build Report. Here you can find some

I already have a CI build running on my Tfs2010 instance, but I'd like to get a Gated checkin build running as well. There are subtle differences between the ways I would like these two builds would run, however. Specifically, I'd like the Gated checkin to not produce bug workitems on failure, not associate changesets and workitems on build, not move builds to the drop, and not maintain previous builds. Since builds initiated by Gated checkins are uncommitted changes, these steps seem unnecessary to me, but I would definitely like the CI build to perform these functions. Unfortunately, there's

I have setup continuous integration for a WCF project and want to use the MSBuild Arguments to automatically deploy the application to a remote server but it is not deploying. When running a new Build all the Tests pass and all the projects build but the website is not being deployed. Also, I am getting no errors back from the build to say anything has gone wrong. I have opened up port 8172 on the remote server to ensure connections can be made to IIS and have even disabled the firewall. In the Build Configuration I have specified the following arguments; /p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:DeployTarget