Basically, I have 2 build definitions, one builds and deploys some database projects, and the other builds and deploys a website.
What I would like to do is be able to build/deploy the databases, and if that doesn't have any errors, build and deploy the web app.
The idea being that if database deploy fails for some reason, I can restore the database from a backup and fix the issue before I deploy the web app. (Leaving the previous version of the app working)
Any info on how to invoke my database build definition, from within my web app build def would be appreciated.
Download the Community TFS Build Extensions, it contains the Queue Build custom activity which you use (or) you can call TFSBuild Commandline tool by using Invoke Process Activity.
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I have setup a Build Agent for TFS2018.
For our website project I have created a Builddefinition based on ASP.NET Website template.
During the buildprocess the agent tries to publish a database,
starting with the following steps:
GetMSDeployInstalledVersionPath: $(_DefaultMSDeployMaxVersion) is 3
$(_MSDeployVersionsToTry) is 9.0 $(MSDeployPath) is C:\Program Files
(x86)\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\ ProcessPublishDatabaseSettings:
Starting Web deployment task from source: dbFullSql(******) to
Destination: dbFullSql(******). C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\Web\Deploy\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.MSDeploy.Common.targets(55,5): Error : Web deployment task failed. (Cannot connect to the database
'XXXX'. Learn more at:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_CANNOT_CONNECT_TO_DATABASE.)
The problem is, i do not want to publish any database and I not know why the build agent tries to publish a database.
I do not know from where he has the (wrong) information about the database.
In our solution, I do not have checked any of the deploy checkboxes for the configured configuration.
In our erlier TFS2015 Version, the build with xaml Definitions did not publish a database. I have not added something about a database in my definition. For this reason, I think, the process fin something in one of the projects about a database and think he should publish a database.
How I can remove the publishing database step?
Thank you for the suggestions.
I have the cause:
In the web project settings, you will find a package web sql pane, where the deployment of a database was configured.
To this day, I had not noticed this setting option.
I have removed and now, I can devote myself to the next deployment error :-)
We use TFS 2012 as our Source Control Repository and we also use it to deploy our Web Applications (primarily ASP .NET MVC applications with Entity Framework Code First Databases) using TFS Build and Deploy from Team Explorer within Visual Studio.
Our's is a fairly small and new setup, so up until now, we developers have been deploying code to the production servers. But from an Audit point of view, it has been decided that code installation will be handed to a separate group. At the moment, before we deploy code using TFS Automated Deploy we do a couple of steps which are manual steps
- Log on the production server, backup the individual application within IIS using IIS --> Export to export it to a zip file.
- Stop application pool for the IIS application where new code is being installed
- Install new code from Visual Studio --> Queue new Build
- Get back on the server to restart the application pool and do tests to see if the application is working as expected.
I wondering, if anyone can guide me, if there is any way to change the Automated Build and Deploy template / process / workflow to do these manual steps before it does these steps before and after it deploys the code? Basically, the new team doing the code install to the Production Server and they will still click and install code automatically but the buid templace / process / workflow will do these steps as a part of the Build / Deploy process.
thanks
if you can code it, Powershell, bat etc. then you can add it to the template.
Identify where in the workflow you need to add your new steps. you can then add an invoke process activity to call out to your scripts, that will do the currently manual steps.
I would have thought most of the IIS steps can be automated using powershell and iis appcmd
Also it may well be worth looking at Release Management 2013 as your deployment pipeline, it will give a more Auditable stream and allow for sign off to approve deployments. http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/release-management-for-microsoft-visual-studio-vs.aspx
Our plan is to use Team Foundation Build service to do automatic builds, then use the testing facility to automatically perform testing on the build server then release that build onto the application server.
So far we have
Team Foundation Server with TF Build Controller configured
Build server with win2012, Visual Studio 2013 and Build agent configured.
SQL Server with SQL 2013 installed
Application Server with Win2012 and .netframework installed
My question is what do I need to do to set up automatic builds, and to execute the unit test harness once compilation is successful.
Also the deployment target machine will initially be DEV, however we would like to quickly build for test env and prod etc.
This is what I got so far.
Build Controller (Already set up I believe)
Build Agent (Already installed on build server)
Build Process Template (Do I need to do anything with this. Is this what controls the whole lot)
Team Build Definition (I had a look at this, and it seems to use the build process template)
Drop Folder (I am assuming this is where the executables will be dropped into).
At the moment I have bits and pieces of info, what I would like to know is how this whole thing is hanging together. From the moment the developer wants to do the build to the moment that exe is placed into the DEVAPPSERV (Development application server).
Is anyone able to point me in the right direction or give a summary of what I need to make this happen?
Many thanks,
Dalibor
Install TFS Server (TFS Disk) Create a Team Project Collection and any desired Projects
Install TFS Controller + Agents onto a dedicated machine (TFS Disk) Configure only the build options if on a different machine to the TFS Server
Configure Build Controller to connect to a Specific Team Collection on your TFS Server
Install VS Premium or higher on build machine, if you want code coverage results for your tests
Add some code to TFS Source Control
Create a Build Definition using the default template.
Configure the build definition.
Set the working folder for the build, include only what you need as this will speed up the process
Point the definition to your .sln or proj file.
Ensure testing is enabled and that your test assembly names will match the regex used to identify test dll's i.e. name your test assemblies with the word test.
Set the trigger to be CI or what ever flavour of build you require i.e. gated build
Save the build definition
Trigger a manual build and debug any issues
you should have the basics done and a repeatable build created.
That should cover the basics, you may want to customise the build template (see Ewald Hoffman's guide for tips), you may want to narrow down your code coverage (look for runsettings file info).
If you follow these steps you should be able to get a basic build created and running from these, if you hit any issues you can come back and ask specific questions about a particular area
In order to do automatic builds you should check the CI build option ( under the trigger build option ) and third party automated testing can be run by executed by a post build script.
See the following TFS article about post build scripts.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn376353.aspx
I have created a lightly customized TFS build process template and also appropriate TFS build definition. It builds fine on the TFS build server.
Is there any way I can allow developers to reuse the same build process XAML and definition to do full builds on their local machines? Maybe there is some utility which can be run with TFS build process XAML files?
I really would like to avoid maintaining a separate copy of the build script for full local rebuilds.
The build templates can only be run by the TFS build service. Without installing that on each developers machine, that might not be the best idea.
An alternative is to setup a share on the developments machine and grant access to the TFS Build account (the one that TFSBuildServiceHost.exe runs on the server as). Then the developer can Queue a build and get the Server to Drop the files onto their machine.
The downside to this is you need a lot of builds to be run on the Agents.
Hi I am using TFS and want do deploy two web applications after build to a test server.
After the deployment I want to call a web page at one of the web applications to trigger some work like, delete all data and insert test data.
How can I accomplish this?
You could have a look at TFSDeployer. If you are comfortable with Powershell, you can write a deployment script that does whatever you want, and TFSDeployer will execute it when it detects changes to the build quality (i.e. you set build quality to "deploy to test" for example and it will run the script to deploy to the test environment). There's more information on the site, and this is what I use almost always for deployments.
You can MS Deploy to deploy your applications to the test environments: http://www.ewaldhofman.nl/post/2010/04/12/Auto-deployment-of-my-web-application-with-Team-Build-2010-to-add-Interactive-Testing.aspx.
To call a web application, you can either create a codedui that you run as part of your testing, or you add an activity to your build template that calls the web site: http://www.ewaldhofman.nl/?tag=/build+2010+customization
You can use DeployToAzure. It publishes specified cloud project to Azure as a part of your TFS build workflow. Publishing is executed after solution is built and unit tested are passed. You can include some steps (like call web page) after that.
And you don't need any Powershell programming for that.
Check here for additional information: Deploying Azure Project from TFS 2010 Build Server