Thursday, January 31, 2008

TFSBuild.com - Now You're Cooking with TeamBuild...

Team Foundation Build Recipes - Welcome

"As a Build Master you've been put in charge of coming up with a central build system for your team. It can be quite daunting at first and you wonder "Where do I start?".

The purpose of this site is to create and share build recipes with other build masters so that we can all learn and benefit from each other's experience.

Since the site is called TFSBuild.com, there is a particular focus on MSBuild and Team Foundation Build scripts. But if you have a NAnt script or similar that you think others might find useful post it up.

The site is published as a wiki and the idea is that anybody can register to add & update content.

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Extending TeamBuild is a task we're currently fighting with at work (well I'm not, but one of my guys is... poor guy... ;) so this sight caught my eye.

Two major issues we're working is auto creation of the setup/MSI via an included Setup Project (which he has working well now... ) and automated ClickOnce deployment (which he's still fighting...).

Once we get both of these working, I'm encouraging him to write up what he learned and how he got it working for publishing/posting. And now, with TFSBuild.com, we have the perfect place to publish it... :)

Anyway, for those fighting the good MS/TeamBuild fight, TFSBuild.com looks like it could grow, with our help, into a great resource.

(via My VSTS Blog - TFSBuild.com - your friendly site for build scripts/tasks)

1 comment:

Gonzonia said...

I'd be interested if you ever get the automated ClickOnce Deployment working. It'd be great to have daily beta builds deployed to a beta server.

Of course I'd be happy if I could just use Team Build and then manually copy the clickonce files over.