I am new to Microsoft's Team Foundation Server. Have used Jenkins, but now I'm trying to explore and possibly switch to TFS. The Build View add-on in Jenkins is very helpful by providing visual view of all the deploys. Is there any in TFS that will provide information, which builds have succeeded or failed and progress of current deployments?
Thanks
There is the build summary view in TFS and can review each build of a build definition.
A related article: Visual Studio Team Services – NEW FEATURES: 3 Build Summary Page Improvements
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I have installed Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 1 and I want to install and configure automated generated builds for the team.
In Team Foundation Management Console, there is an entry "Build and release" but there a only informations and links that are not clickable.
If I click a link, another windows opens, but the ok button stays disabled, so I do not get additional information:
In earlier releases of TFS I could install and configure the tfs build system on this place.
How I can do now in tfs2018. Do I have to install additional software and where I can download.
For one reason, we are using Visual Studio 2015 (we want upgrade later to 2017).
Go to the TFS Web interface, in the settings panel find the Agent Pool and hit the "Download Agent" link.
TFS 2018 is the first TFS version that no longer supports the XAML agent infrastructure.
You need to deploy an agent first as jessehouwing mentiond above, you can also refer to this link for detials : Deploy an agent on Windows
Then create a build definition and Enable continuous integration (CI) to automate builds. Refer to this link for details： https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/actions/ci-cd-part-1
Below articles may also helps for you:
Build and Release in VSTS and TFS
Build and release tasks
Build and release quickstarts
Thanks for the answers. No I have found the page, where I can download the build-agent.
For TFS2018 you can download the build agent by using the following url:
https://{your_server}/DefaultCollection/_admin/_AgentPool
Like provided from Microsoft you can find it for other TFS versions:
VSTS: https://{your_account}.visualstudio.com/_admin/_AgentPool
TFS 2017: https://{your_server}/tfs/DefaultCollection/_admin/_AgentPool
TFS 2015: http://{your_server}:8080/tfs/_admin/_AgentPool
Currently, we are using TFS 2012 and we have a heavily customized build process as described below.
1. Build the source
2. Run an EXE as console to host WCF services
3. Restore databases on local sql server
4. Run functional test
5. delete databases
6. close the exe started in step 2.
7. Create an Installable exe using WiX ( Wix with custom bootstratpper)
8. Update version number file to TFS
Now we want to move to Visual Studio online from onpremise. Trying to setup a build process with Private Build agent. I have created an VM , installed and registerd agent. I do see agent name back in website.
When I go back to Visual studio and try to create new xaml build definition I am getting below error.
TFS22501: Creating a build definition requires a build controller be defined for this team project collection. There may not be any controllers configured or you may not have permissions to view them. contact your team foundation server administrator.
can somebody please help ?
If you're using XAML build, you have to use the old-style XAML build controller/agent. The VSTS agent is for the new build system.
I would strongly recommend migrating your builds to the new build system as part of your migration to VS Team Services, as the XAML build system is effectively dead.
We used to get notification from the tray of our windows machine for a finished build while using the xaml build definitions, it also had an option to reconcile workspace. The same functionality is not available for the vNext builds.
The BuildNotification App is available with VS 2015, but it seems that the reconcile workspace is not available with the vNext build. Is there some other app that can give a notification and do the reconcile operation?
We just moved to new builds (vNext) and are missing this feature as well.
Currently, we can do this manually via IDE (VS 2015):
Team Explorer -> Builds
Right click on latest build with you changes -> "Reconcile Workspace..."
The BuildNotificationApp is still a part of the VS 2015 and can be found here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\BuildNotificationApp.exe. However, this app only applied to XAML build.
For now, to workaround the missing feature, you can use a free build status tool Catlight . It also shows status of vNext builds in tray area.
As for reconcile workspace, there is no this build-in feature for vNext build. However, you can manually use tf reconcile command for your workspace. Such as below screenshot:
Update:
If you just want a simple app or vs extension to achieve it, there is no these things for now. You may have to customize your own extension to implement it.
Update2:
I have created a feature request in uservoice:
Reconcile Workspace for vNext Build
https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-team-services/suggestions/15979690-reconcile-workspace-for-vnext-build
You can use AnyStatus to monitor both vNext and XAML builds.
AnyStatus comes with a feature called Triggers which lets you run a program or a batch script in response to status changes. Using Triggers you can configure it to run "tf.exe reconcile" when the build status changes from Running to OK.
Disclaimer: I am the author of Any Status.
I've installed the prerequisite (Team Explorer 2013) to the best of my knowledge, but when I try to set up a VCS root to connect to our TFS Version Control server, I continue to get this error message:
"No TFS assemblies were found on the system. Please make sure you have
Microsoft Team Explorer installed. Supported versions: 2015 2013 2012
2010 2008 2005"
The Team Explorer I downloaded from Microsoft just seemed to be a plugin for Visual Studio, which doesn't make much sense as a server-side component. Anyway, I configured a connection to our TFS box within Team Explorer/Visual Studio on my TeamCity server.
So I have two questions that seem to be undocumented by JetBrains:
What does it mean to set up and configure Team Explorer? How can I validate that I have set up and configured Team Explorer on my TeamCity server correctly?
How does TeamCity know how to find the Team Explorer assemblies? Is there some sort of configuration I am supposed to do? Where is this documented?
I guess I'm looking for a true step-by-step set of instructions that make no assumptions about my understanding of TFS or Team Explorer, or any assumptions about what I may have already installed on my TeamCity box.
I've read the two articles on the JetBrains site regarding how to set this up, and they don't cover actually installing and configuring the prerequisites or configuring TeamCity to discover the Team Explorer assemblies it needs.
Team Explorer is the client software that you use to access Visual Studio Team Foundation Server functionality from Visual Studio. You can simply launch Team Explorer on your TeamCity server to create a team project and check in a project, to validate whether it is installed correctly.
I couldn't find any documentation that mentioned how does TeamCity find Team Explorer assemblies. But, based on my understanding, there is no configuration needed to detect Team Explorer. Please make sure your TeamCity server is running under Windows.
If the issue that can't find Team Explorer persists, you can install VS Premium instead of Team Explorer.
Setting up Jetbrains TeamCity for CI with Team Foundation Server:
Install Jetbrains TeamCity
If you are planning on using IIS or TFS on the same server, configure Jetbrains TeamCity to run on a port other than 80 or 8080
Once TeamCity is up and running, you can begin configuring your TeamCity installation for CI Builds.
Log into TeamCity with your user name and password
Create a new TeamCity Project
Create a new build configuration
You will now see a series of build configuration settings that you will have to complete presented in a Wizard-style navigation view.
Enter General Settings
Enter VCS Settings
After entering VCS Settings, Create and attach new VCS Root
Enter the relevant information for your TFS instance
Create a Build Step using Visual Studio as your build runner. You can create as many build steps as you need and specify the order of the steps (similar to a TFS Build Workflow).
For setting up Continuous Integration builds, you will need to specify a Build Trigger. CI Builds will generally use a VCS Trigger that is triggered on each source control check-in.
If you need to pass any parameters to your build, you can configure these in your Build Parameters.
That is all! You can then either run your Builds manually by clicking on the Run button in TeamCity or simply verify that your builds are triggered by the next check-in into TFS.
It very easy using the TFS Plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Team+Foundation+Server+Plugin) to check detect code changes committed to TFS, check out the code and compile it using Jenkins.
However I need to check a build artifact back into TFS after the build is complete. I can't see an option to do this.
Is there a way to commit artifacts tfs from jenkins build
This link might prove useful.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2016/05/27/continuous-deploymentdelivery-with-jenkins-and-vs-team-services/
It's Developer Tools Blogs > Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management article which shows how to set up a Jenkins project that archives artifacts on TFS.
It's titled "Continuous deployment/delivery with Jenkins and VS Team Services" by Anand Gaurav...Really easy to follow and each step is carefully explained.