Sometimes that you need to customize TFS Build 2010, you need to create a custom CodeActivity. A CodeActivity is written in C# and you can do what you can’t in TFS Build itself, there. The simplest way to create a custom CodeActivity, deploy and use it, is as follow: 1. Create a .Net 4.0 based …
Doing FTP in .Net is not as hard as you may imagine. There is a very simple way and a bit advanced way. Simple way is using System.Net.WebClient class and its UploadFile method. Advanced way includes using System.Net.FtpWebRequest and System.Net.FtpWebResponse classes. Using them you can do ordinary FTP operations like ListDirectory, UploadFile, DeleteFile, etc. For …
اگر شما هم تا حالا برای ساخت یک استرینگ از استرینگ و عدد در C# از روشی مثل string str = “old” + (2+2).ToString() استفاده میکردید، یعنی خودتان زحمت ToString() را میکشیدید، دیگر این زحمت را نکشید. چون قانون String Concatenation در C#، شرح داده شده در بخش ۷.۸.۴ مشخصات زبانی C#، طوری است که …
If you have added some new Activity or CodeActivity to your build process template but you don’t want to edit template process each time you want modify properties of Activity or CodeActivity, you must add that parameter to “Build process parameters” list of your desired build definition. By doing this, there is no need to …
After reading Jim Lamb’s guide for creating a custom workflow activity for TFS Build 2010, I created a project to create my own custom workflow activity too, by following Jim’s guides line by line. At the end, despite my correct custom activity, when I tried to use that in a typical template process by dragging …
I was used to use entlib for logging. But as I’m in favour of open source and because I am using NHibernate and Castle ActiveRecord in my applications, decided to use log4net instead. So found a good article about it, and enabled it for my application. But the problem was a very huge log file …
If you ever has need to customize build process in Team Foundation Build 2010, you may noticed that there is several ways to do it while each way is suitable for a specific range of requirements: 1. Running external tools like batch files or ftp.exe or MSBuild Community Tasks via InvokeProcess or via MSBuild Activity. …
I’m using log4net for logging in my ASP.NET application. This web site is based on .Net framework 3.5 and is installed on IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in a 64 bit machine. Logging was working greatly when I was running application from Visual Studio 2010’s internal web server, but was not working at …
We have a Visual Studio solution that uses some external assemblies coming from third parties. This solution resides in TFS 2010 version control. We have configured Team Foundation Build to do automatic builds of the solution. As you know you should put any external assemblies in TFS Version Control to do a proper build without …
If you are going to start using TFS 2010 please be aware that each TPC (Team Project Collection) needs a separate Build Controller. For those who are intended to use TFS 2010 as their ALM engine, TFS 2010 can contain several TPCs. Each TPC can contain several Team Projects. Each Team Project is a regular …