tfs2010

Is there any way to copy a build definition? I work in a mainline source control methodology which utilizes many different branches that live for very short periods (ie. a few days to a week). I'd really like to copy a build template and just change the solution to build. Is there any way to do this? You can write an add-in to do it. Here's the code to copy an existing build definition: static IBuildDefinition CloneBuildDefinition(IBuildDefinition buildDefinition) { var buildDefinitionClone = buildDefinition.BuildServer.CreateBuildDefinition( buildDefinition.TeamProject); buildDefinitionClone

I have setup my .NET project in TFS Build. It builds fine locally, but I am getting this build error on the server: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\SSDT\Microsoft.Data.Tools.Schema.SqlTasks.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. I have no idea what it is, even googling didn't help much. My solution has some database projects. What is the issue here and how I can fix it? Preet Sangha You need to install the SQL Server Data Tools on all build agents . When installing

I have reason to believe that the TFS Destroy command was run on my server. Does TFS provide a way to find out who and when it was done? TFS logs all user-initiated commands in the database for 14 days. Try connect to your Tfs_Collection database and run the following query: SELECT * FROM tbl_Command WITH (NOLOCK) WHERE Command = 'Destroy' Additionally, any time a Destroy command is run, an event is logged to the Application Event Log on the Application Tier that processed the command. I guess this is related to your earlier question. I don't think TFS provides an easy way (or any way) to do

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 window, the screen refreshes every 10 seconds or so. Not a big deal except during every refresh the window resets to somewhere in the middle of the page if looking at the bottom of the build window (and it scrolls). So annoying. I'd rather manually refresh to watch the build run instead of scrolling down to the bottom, then once getting to the bottom, scrolling again because the window reset. Is there a way to turn off this

As part of our build process we deploy our web applications using MSDeploy. This worked perfect until a few weeks ago (I think when we updated our build/TFS server to SP1 of TFS 2010). In our build definition there is a step to invoke a process. This process will call the generated deploy.cmd file and passes in a couple of additional parameters. This worked fine for a long time, but now we get this: Error: Unrecognized argument '"-skip:objectName=filePath,absolutePath=.*cmsservices.config"'. All arguments must begin with "-". As described in the help we pass the additional arguments in with

I would like to get the source code of a project at specific time (changeset). So I need do download whole folder. I would like to do it for different times and handling a different workspace is not very convenient. I know about TFS Get Specific Version into separate folder (with workspace) and Need command to get a file from TFS without a workspace (one file). Is there some solution for whole folder without creating a new workspace? Edit I have found the accepted answer too ambitious. I needed something more simple. Assumptions: I can access TFS from Visual Studio on my computer I want to get

In the project I've inherited, the original developer used a number of post-build events in his Visual Studio projects to copy around DLL's and stuff when building inside VS. This is causing some grief now that I'm trying to move these things to the TFS 2010 Build system. I was hoping to be able to create a new "Continuous" project configuration, and exclude those post-build events from Visual Studio in that configuration - but it seems those calls aren't configurable based on your project configuration.... Any ideas? Is there something I could check for to know I'm running under TFS Build and