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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
It’s a few months that I am dealing with continuous integration, automatic builds, TFS and Team Foundation Build deeply. Experiences during this period learned me some points that I’m glad to share with all: 1. Don’t assume anything about build agent. Specifically don’t assume any library is installed on the agent, any assembly registered in …