Desktop Builds of multiple solutions

Team build allows us to easily build multiple solutions in a team project. In a muti-solution system, developers will also need to be able to easily build many solutions locally where they want to sanity test that their change to one solution doesn't adversely affect anything else that references it.

Is there a way developers can perform a desktop build of the same solutions defined in the a team build other than opening the solution in the IDE and building one at a time, hopefully in the correct order?

[519 byte] By [simonburgess] at [2007-12-17]
# 1
We have just the thing for you and guess what the feature is called? "Desktop builds" Big Smile

You can just open the build type configuration file TFSBuild.proj in your VS command prompt on your client machine and do a "msbuild TFSBuild.proj". All the solutions that you have selected in the team build type are going to be built in the order specified and tests also run incase you have chosen to run tests in the build type. More on this can be found in Uday's blog

Feel free to ask queries if you have any.

-Anu

Anutthara at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Visual Studio Team System - General...
# 2
Perfect thanks!

This also gives you the opportunity to test your changes to the compilation and test tasks in the Public builds before checking in tfsbuild.proj

simonburgess at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Visual Studio Team System - General...
# 3
Correct. That is the idea of having a desktop build on the client. The dev can compile the changes that he has already made and run respective tests on the entire build with his changes on disk before checking in the changes.
Anutthara at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Visual Studio Team System - General...

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