Team Foundation Server 2010 Builds: Understand, Configure, and Customize Benjamin Day benday.com |

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Agenda Why automated builds? Tour of the build system Build servers Tour of the build script Customize your build script

Why automated builds? Helps prevent the “works on my box” problem Proves you know how to build your app Gives you a solid way to version releases Makes integration second nature

TFS 2010: New Build Features Windows Workflow-based build script Gated Checkin builds Lab Management builds New build server architecture

DEMO 1: THE GRAND TOUR

Build Controllers & Agents Controller Coordinates builds for a Team Project Collection (TPC) Assigns work to Agents Agent(s) 1+ agent per controller Use “Tags” to define capabilities of each Agent

DEMO 2: GATED CHECKIN BUILDS

DEMO 3: TOUR OF THE BUILD SCRIPT

SO…YOU WANT TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR BUILD

Why customize? Environment specific configurations IIS configuration Custom setup commands Basically, deploy your app.

Create a project to customize the build script Compile time checking Create a Windows Workflow project Add references to the required TFS assemblies Add references to any other build assemblies

Create a project to customize the build script

DEMO 4: CUSTOM BUILD SCRIPT

DEMO 5: CUSTOM BUILD WORKFLOW ACTIVITIES

Agenda Why automated builds? Tour of the build system Build servers Tour of the build script Customize your build script

More Information “Levels of TFS Build Automation”, Visual Studio Magazine, July 2011, /07/01/pfcov_TFS2010-Builds.aspx

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