Recent update: 2008-3-21
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cbaugh at 2008-3-7
This message is displayed on a client box (running VS 2005 architect) when we attempt to execute a build type. The build type is referenceing the build service on a different server. TFS is running great and check in / check out, etc works fine. However, I do not have a domain in place since ...
I'm getting this whenever I try to execute a Team Build on my build server. This started happening even on fresh generic Team Builds. TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site ...
hi, Our project has mixed VB6 and VS2003. currently, we want to upgrade the VS2003 project to VS2005 and use the TFS build to do the daily building. The process is : <Build Project 1 (vs2005) > > export tlb file > Build VB6 program (use the above tlb file) --> tlbimp VB6 ...
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Surly at 2008-3-3
Hi,We have share code libraries that are referenced across team projects but stored in the source tree under the project that originated them.For example, say we have the following source tree:$/ $/TeamProject1 $/TeamProject1/Solution1 $/TeamProject1/Solution1/ObjectModelLibrary1 ...
How can I find the property for the path that <target> CoreDropBuild uses to copy my binaries to? I want to write this property to a file so I my older automation can read it in and now the path to where our binaries are being copied to. I tried to look for ...
I'm using the "Visual Studio 2005 Web Application" project model ( http://webproject.scottgu.com/) When building my project Team Build is only producing the compiled codebehind .dll. Content files ( images , .aspx ... ) is not getting copied to the drop folder. Has anyone succeded in ...
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lguger at 2008-2-27
I am getting an error when trying to run a build in TFS. The specific error is a casting error from object of type 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Tasks.SerializedWorkspace' to type 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Tasks.SerializedWorkspace'.The builds used to work a while back and I don't ...
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heysad at 2008-2-26
Could any help me on this one? Getting the erros in BuildLog.txt when running the build on a remote box.Thx - Andy C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v8.0\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets : warning : Warning: Test Run deployment issue: The assembly or module ...
Hi, We are trying to build automatically one VS 2005 solution containing various VC++ project (one exe and several dlls). This solution and its projects make use of custom configuration (this help us to define various preprocessor #defines used in our C++ code).When building this solution with ...
Hi allI'm so close to getting this working, but something very, very strange is happening.I have my application, a small component, and we have a framework - all in seperate Team Projects, I followed a blog http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal/archive/2005/12/22/506635.aspx so that I can build ...
Hi, I hope you can help me with this problem: I set up a Team Build-Server. Basically, it works, my small test-project is building fine. But with our real C++-application there are some problems: - Some of our projects are generating libs as output-files and have a common folder set as the ...
Our dedicated team build server had suffer from a lost of power while a build was in progress. Then, after the server came back up, I noticed that the build was still in progress, not cancelled, and hanging at the "Compiling Sources" step. However, I can successfully perform other ...
Hi All, We upgraded the TFS bits to RTM from B3R last night. Everything seems to work except for the daily build continuous integration. If I try to run TFSBuild start <server> <project> <builtype> it gives me an: Access Denied: You need the 'Update Build' permission to ...
Hi all I'm trying to register a COM dll during the build process, my Regsvr32 is looking ok but it returns an error code of 3. However when I try and register manually (whilst remotely working on the server) it works absolutely fine. Any ideas? Thanks Kev
Hi all I have a web project and when building the solution using Team Build I want the web-site to be published and then copied into the Binaries folder together with the rest. Any way of achieving this? Thanks Kev
Hello all ! I was previously working with TFS Beta 3 Refresh and Team Suite Trial Edition. I have some Team Builds that are running every night. I have just upgraded (indeed, I have uninstalled everything - not the Team Explorer - and install again) to Team Edition for Software Developers ...
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Surly at 2008-2-19
Hi,I am attempt to execute some targets only on my Debug build, but I want to build both Debug and Release.My attempt was to use target's Condition attribute with %(ConfigurationToBuild.FlavorToBuild) == 'Debug' eval'd. The result was the following error:TFSBuild.proj(188,31): error ...
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Surly at 2008-2-18
Hi,I am using Continuous Integration web service from MSDN article - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/ConIntTmFndBld.aspIt works great as long as check-ins on same project don't happen while a build is running. In this case, a second build gets ...
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Zakssj at 2008-2-17
I cant buil my solutions on a remote machine. Service is intalled correctly and response on my build requets. the references on my solution are mapped in a logic path (Z:\) but the service can not access it. this path have all possible access permission for the user with run service(TFSSETUP). ...
Why is the following not working? I tried moving the Import of the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets from the top of the build file to the bottom, but it had no affect. Our environment has separate TFS and Build servers. I'm using TFSBuild.exe to kick off the build through a batch file. ...
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MikeL. at 2008-2-15
We were running on Beta 3 Refresh using the build services for a couple of months now with no problems doing builds. Today we upgraded to RTM and now we get the following errors during the builds. Not sure where to go on this one. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Error: Build started ...
Hi, I have a bunch of Infopath projects that I created using VS2k5 and the Infopath 2k3 Toolkit for Visual Studio 2k5. Now i want to automate the builds of these projects using our TFS Builds server. When I launch the build process, I get the following error : The project file ...
I get this error on the build server: MSBUILD : warning : Failed to instantiate type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestRunConfig, Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.LoadTest, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a': Could not load file or assembly ...
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Vetric at 2008-2-15
I'm trying to execute a custom task from msbuild to branch a particular label of code to a different folder (development to staging) in source control, check that in and then perform the build. The dll I created to perform the branch works fine when called from my local machine but not when ...
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ReneL at 2008-2-15
Hi, Sometimes I received error number TF...... (exemple TF42052). Where I can find a document which describe these kind of error and the solution to each one ?
Where can I found the WorksapceMapping references? I'd like to acces to mapped folders in the TFSBuild.proj. Thanks in advance. Laurent
Heya. I've just installed VS2005 on our TFS in order to build an msi when I do a team build. I added the following to our build script: <Target Name="AfterCompile"> <Exec Command=""$(VSINSTALLDIR)\Common7\IDE\devenv" ...
Has anyone any thoughts about best practice regarding the naming of assembly versions, build numbers, changesets, file versions and so forth?Background (let me know if this is wrong).a. When I check-in a changeset it is given a unique number and all the files it contains then have their tip ...
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dto at 2008-2-13
We are using Team System Beta3 Refresh at the moment... looking to move to RTM in the near future... If there are some 'real world' examples on how to implement strongname and digital certificate signing properly, so that it is supported in a Development (building in the VS IDE) AND Build ...
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BenECM at 2008-2-12
How would one share component development between two VSTS Project teams? Is this possible? For example a team may be responsible for common UI components shared between between other projects. This development may be in tamdem.
The project I'm working on have a lot of unit tests. As of now, I have to create a test lists of unit tests to be run when we compile our solution on the server. I'd like to get rid of this test list and simply say "run all tests" since we are only using unit tests. It would be much ...
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BBuff at 2008-2-10
How can I deploy an app via ClickOnce using Team Build? I read somewhere about replacing SolutionToBuild with SolutionToPublish, but that doesn't seem to do anything special. I'm using the RC. Thanks
My solution has one Windows Forms project, all files are checked in. After starting build it failed, below is content of the BuildLog.txt: Build started 4/12/2006 5:21:06 PM.__Project "C:\Builds\TestBuildDirectory\Test\Main\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj" (EndToEndIteration target(s)): ...
Doesn't look to me like there's any built in way to do this based on the TeamFoundation .targets file implementation, but I thought I'd check to make sure I wasn't missing something. The reason for this is that I have a set of tests that can be run inside of the regular test host and then a ...
I've seen mention of a <Runconfiguration> property thrown around and also an approach of <TestingArgs>/runconfiguration:blahblah</TestingArgs>. I've tried both and neither one is working out for me, so it's always pulling the default one from my VSMDI. Any suggestions? ...
When I first setup the solution, my team copied in the code that we had been working on, I created the team build, and all is well... however - Now, when I view the quality indicators report, my day-to-day code churn is flat-lined at the bottom of the report, because my first build had 733,171 ...
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Surly at 2008-2-7
Hello,I'm trying to get code coverage results from the unit tests executed in my team build. My build report states no coverage results available, and I can't figure out how to enable coverage instrumentation.Locally, I do this through my .testrunconfig file however in looking at the build ...
Do there exist a class within Team System or MSBuild that allows typed access and parsing of Visual Studio Solution Files (.sln)? In case not, I have to manually parse through the text file (why is it still not based on XML?). My requirements is to get path to included project files within the ...
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Sondre at 2008-2-7
I'm working on a system for build automation (CI) and I'm having some problems with the Project type and that it doesn't include ProjectConfigurationToBuild and ProjectSolutionToBuild values when being serialized. Here are the declarations from the type definition ...
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Surly at 2008-2-6
Is there a reference that defines Team Build properties exposed in msbuild? I don't see that any of the online or shipped docs call these out, and I see questions on MSBuild list around these too. Pointers appreciated.
I trying to convert a very large project to Team Foundation build. I am wondering if there is some way to limit the scope of the GET that is done to get the source. Right now it is starting at the top of our tree and I believe eventually timing out on getting the source and then failing the ...
I'm wanting to have Team Build execute a MSBuild project that just executes an external program several times with different parameters. There's nothing to checkout of source control although the external program adds/updates files in source control (scripts from our development Sql Server). ...
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Peds at 2008-2-5
Hi, I've just got a nightly build automation process set up using TFSBuild.exe and supplying it with the appropriate server, project, and BuildType paramaters. Is there any way to specify that I want the particular build to be under .net version 1.1 or 2.0? I am assuming that as I have ...
Hi I've been using the AssemblyInfo task from SDC together with Team Build to update all dll's built by my TFSBuild.proj file. I've also changed the source code for this task slightly to output another property from the task which I want to use to give a number to my installers (very similar ...
Hi, I would like to perform a specific target just before each solution is compiled. Unfortunatly, team build performs a build including all solution in an atomic MSBuild call. To correct this behavior, I tought I could overide the default CoreCompile with my own version, in order to call a ...
The "Generating list of changesets" step is taking anywhere from 10-15 minutes for our build. This seems odd considering there's only 6 actual changesets associated with the build. Granted there are something like 100 files associated with all those changesets, but is that really the problem? ...
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Surly at 2008-2-4
Hi,I am modifying my TFSBuild.proj to use osql to update my stored procedures. I've done this with stand-alone msbuild with no problem, but am trying to figure out how to integrate into a team build and decided to use a AfterCompile target as so:<ItemGroup> <CodeFiles ...
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bb5178 at 2008-2-3
Hi, I am new to this thread, not sure if this has been asked before. <img src="/library/msdn/images/emoticons/smile_embaressed.gif"> Does anyone know how you can delete or edit an exisitng build type!? Thanks -Bob
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Surly at 2008-2-3
I'm creating a Build Type, adding Build Options, and selecting "Run Test".My .vsmdi file appears when I click the checkbox but no tests appear in the list. And my "Next" and "Finish" buttons are disabled.These are unit tests that run just fine in VS on my dev box. ...
The only reason I can think of is 'In case WorkspaceMapping.xml changed'. Is there another reason why it is deleted? Thanks in advance. -OmarV http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/omarv ...