Nagaraju Palla's WebLog
How to add custom build step messages to teambuild process
The following sample task illustrates how to add custom build step messages to the build process....
Author: nagarajp Date: 02/03/2006
Creating Skeleton Builds in Teambuild to Publish Test Results
There are several requests on how to publish test results to a TFS server without really creating a...
Author: nagarajp Date: 01/25/2006
Connecting People
Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised by my college mate, a good friend, Jothibasu contacting me. He...
Author: nagarajp Date: 01/18/2006
I'm back :)
Oh, it is already 1½ months since I blogged. I feel time has been just flying, had a good time with...
Author: nagarajp Date: 01/18/2006
Gijo on VSTF migration tools
Gijo, test lead for VSTF migration tools has started blogging. He has got plenty of first hand...
Author: nagarajp Date: 11/14/2005
Desktop Build – where are the commands?
In a team environment, developers would need to use the same build configuration that is used to...
Author: nagarajp Date: 11/14/2005
Using Password Protected Signing Keys in TeamBuild
As you might already know, a managed component can be uniquely identified by assembly signing. Refer...
Author: nagarajp Date: 11/08/2005
Measuring Performance of TeamBuild Build Process
The enterprise builds are huge and take a significant amount of build time. MSBuild offers an option...
Author: nagarajp Date: 11/03/2005
Mission statements and vision statements. What are they?
I always have this slight confusion around where to draw the line between mission and vision...
Author: nagarajp Date: 11/03/2005
Repositories for TeamBuild and migration tools
As all of you know, the best way to gauge the quality of software is to assess through the real...
Author: nagarajp Date: 11/03/2005
TeamBuild Resources
Rob Caron posted a nice collection of resources on TeamBuild. Some additional teambuild blogs are:...
Author: nagarajp Date: 11/02/2005
Do you know: editing VS project files made easy
In VS 2005, you can edit project files (.csproj, .vbproj etc) in VS itself while they are loaded....
Author: nagarajp Date: 11/02/2005
Passing options to msbuild command line in TeamBuild process
TeamBuild Type Creation Wizard creates a file called ‘Tfsbuild.rsp’ with every build type. Using...
Author: nagarajp Date: 11/02/2005
Properties and targets defined in TeamBuild process (Microsoft.TeamFoundationBuild.targets only)
We have comprehensive inline documentation for the properties defined in TfsBuild.proj file. These...
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/27/2005
Features enabled by installing VSTS or VSTT on TeamBuild machine
Users will need to install Visual Studio Team Test edition (VSTT) or Visual Studio Team System...
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/27/2005
Building binaries targeting .NET 1.1 and .NET 1.0 in TeamBuild
There are two approaches for building binaries targeting .NET 1.1 and .NET 1.0 in TeamBuild....
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/26/2005
Incremental Builds using TeamBuild
Performing incremental builds in TeamBuild is very straight forward. Here are some details on how to...
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/24/2005
Publishing Web Sites in TeamBuild
We have been seeing a huge customer request on how to publish a website in TeamBuild build process....
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/21/2005
Examining Get Task in TeamBuild
TeamBuild implemented ‘Get’ task for syncing sources. This task is same as ‘tf get’, the command...
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/21/2005
Publishing Test Results in TeamBuild
Few weeks ago, I worked with TSDT product team in setting up infrastructure for publishing test...
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/19/2005
Building Default ASP.NET Projects in TeamBuild
There are few things to note while evaluating ASP.NET projects under TeamBuild. We had several...
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/18/2005
Create Workitems for Test Failures in TeamBuild
Currently, TeamBuild does not have out of the box support to create workitems for test failures....
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/14/2005
Building PGO Builds using TeamBuild
One of the enhancements in C++ compiler space for Whidbey is building Profile-Guided Optimized (PGO)...
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/10/2005
Improvements from Beta2 to Beta3 in TeamBuild
- We have now included a command line utility to manage builds. It is called TfsBuild.exe can be...
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/07/2005
Using Web References in ASP.NET projects from TeamBuild
Recently, I had an opportunity to answer couple of customer questions on building web sites with...
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/04/2005
Who am I?
Finally, I’m getting there! I’ve been reading blogs of my friends and esteemed colleagues and I’m...
Author: nagarajp Date: 10/04/2005