"Configuring Desktop Builds for Building Specific Solutions in Team Build "

Manish Agarwal - Configuring desktop builds for building specific solutions in Team Build

"Scenario

I have set up a Team Build Type which builds an entire system consisting of multiple solutions. I want an easy way for developers to be able to invoke builds on there dev machines (for only the solutions they are working on) using Team Build. We do not want developers to build the entire system (all solutions) as this will result in lot of time wastage. Additionally we do not want to create a sperate Team Build Type for each developer for supporting the desktop scenario for scalability and maintainability issues. Is it possible?

Yes, it is possible. Developers don’t need to define new build type customize for there needs. By doing simple customization in tfsbuild.proj file and passing desktop properties scenario can be easily enabled.

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This is a cool post on how to hack your TFSBuild.Proj to enable command line parameter builds...

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