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DYK #1 : IIS not required for Team Build

DYK = Did You Know?

Internet Information Server (IIS) is not required to be installed for a TFS 2008 Team Build machine

The application server for TFS 2005 still used .NET Remoting to communicate with the…

Update MSBuild Toolpath in TFS build process template

I have experienced a number of migration scenarios where it was decided to first upgrade old Visual Studio 2010 solutions to the latest and greatest version of Visual Studio (VS 2013 at this moment) without forcing a TFS upgrade at the…

Integration of Dynamics CRM 2011 solutions with TFS

Some weeks ago I was asked for a proof of concept to design a TFS 2010 solution to fully (not less than 100%) automate a complex Dynamics CRM 2011 deployment for various environments (dev / test / staging / production). Many different…

Managing Builds through the Build Quality value

The integration in TFS between Builds and Work Items is just too good. In this blog post I will describe a solution based on a TFS Server Plugin to have more fine-grained control on completed builds.

The importance of Continuous Building/Integration

Automatically triggering a build after each check-in (continuous integration option in TFS Build Definitions) in a development branch is a good practice that nowadays needs less explanation than a few years ago. Many development teams seem to…

Errors during build execution while downloading large files from Version Control

In a large SharePoint development project at a customer I was confronted with the not always reproducible build error while syncing the build workspace:

Publication of Test Results to TFS 2008

Lately I’ve been struggling with some weird behavior during a Team Build (TFS 2008). The build executed also a set of Unit Tests which passed, but during the publication step of the test results to Team Foundation Server, the operation failed time after time.

The Gated Check-in build in TFS2010

Everybody should be already familiar with Continuous Integration or should I say Continuous Building? Automatically building a development codeline after a check-in is often not immediately followed by an integration action towards a main branch. I picked up the term…