Telling TeamBuild to get and build an older version/changeset

Grant Holliday's blog - How to: Make Team Build get a previous version

In Team Build 2008 there is a property called GetVersion. Here’s what the description from Aaron Hallberg’s blog says about it:

GetVersion.  Passed to the Version property of the Get task.  Defaults to SourceGetVersion (see below), but can be overridden to retrieve a particular version from source control.

To use this property to build a previous version of the source code you have three options:

Additional MSBuild Parameters dialog

Queue a new build and in the "Additional MSBuild Parameters" box, put:

/p:GetVersion=CXXXX

Where XXXX is the changeset you want to build. See screenshots here.

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I hate to say this, but I’ve been wondering about what, how, when and where to use the "Additional MSBuild Parameters" box when executing a build.

Well Grant has come to the rescue and provided a cool, and real world, example of using this field to tell TeamBuild to get an older/different changeset. I can totally see how this could come in handy.