Stop Refresh inside TFS Build window in Visual Studio

Question

Is there a way to stop the constant refreshing inside Visual Studio when looking at a TFS Build? Using VS 2010 SP1 and TFS 2010 SP1. When watching a build in the Build win

Answer 1

There is a way to make this stop. Add the following registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\TeamFoundation\Build\UISettings with value name "ReportPollingInterval"

with a DWORD value (in ms) for the refresh interval. By default it refreshes every 10 seconds.

You will need to change "10.0" to your Visual Studio version (e.g. Visual Studio 2013 is "12.0", and Visual Studio 2015 is "14.0")

E.g. run this on your command line:

reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\TeamFoundation\Build\UISettings /v ReportPollingInterval /t REG_DWORD /d 1000000000