I have a solution the source Control (TFS 2008) with multiple projects. Some of the projects are independent of each other. I dont want to build the complete solution instead sometimes we need to build some of the projects.
I am a total newbie in Team Build. Please help how i can use the
<SolutionToBuild Include="$(BuildProjectFolderPath)/../../Development/Main/Build-Development.sln">
<Targets></Targets>
<Properties></Properties>
</SolutionToBuild>
to select only some of the projects from the solution.
Kindly give a detailed answer for me as i am absolutely clueless about it.
Thanks
The easiest way to do this is to define a new solution configuration for your existing solution. Just follow these steps:
Open your solution
From the main Visual Studio menu, select Build > Configuration Manager...
Click the "Active solution configuration" drop down and select New...
Enter a name for the new configuration (e.g. "TFS")
Specify the configuration to copy settings from (e.g. "Release")
In the "Build" column, uncheck any projects you don't want to build from your TFS Build
Click Close
Update your configurations to build to use the configuration you just defined
That's it! There's no need to manage multiple solutions and new projects should be included in your new configuration by default. Switching them off is as simple as clearing a checkbox.
Create a second build and a second .sln file to do the build. We have one project with three different builds in it (a "main" build, a "utility" build, and a "code analysis" build).
Manually create a solution that includes all the projects you want to build and check it in. Then create a new build using the wizard. Finally, edit the created .PROJ file (found in $/ProjectName/TeamBuildTypes) and point it to the correct solution.
Alternatively, you could copy and modify your existing .PROJ file, but since you said you're a newbie, I'd stick with the first to begin with.
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Is there a way that I can make a build definition for TFS2012 that will include all projects in a given folder ($\AllProjects for example)? I would like such a feature so that each time a new project was added anywhere in the child folders I don't have to manually update the build definition. Is this possible?
I think this is not possible, but you can create one solution just for this purpose (something like DeployProjects.sln), with all projects that you want to build. For each new project, you will add it to this solution.
If you don't mind customizing the workflow you can do this.
Use the FindMatchingFiles activity to find all csproj files, then loop through them and use the MSBuild activity to build each one.
Although, I would stick with Rafael's advice and just create a sln specifically for TFS Build that contains all projects you want to build.
we have setup TFS Build for our project, but on every build the system copies the whole repository and then compiles our solution. How can we make sure TFS Build only downloads the files needed for the solution without having to cloak each un-needed directory manually ? Now it downloads over 2GIGs of data just to compile a project that is less then 100mb in size (source files). The other data are test databases and files that are not needed for the automatic build.
EDIT:
some further investigation let me to some keywords for searching. These posts are helping out:
Team Build - Get Workspace - get latest from specific paths, NOT everything
TFS Build and workspace
still investigating though. Any comments are welcome.
EDIT:
An option is to replace CreateWorkspace in the Build process definition with my own extended activity. I'm hoping to find out that somebody already did.. basically you would use the VersionControlServer object to download the necessary files instead of the whole workspace.
EDIT
There is currently no real good answer / solution to this. I gave some options and the people that responded gave some alternatives, but you can't easily change the TFS Build process to just download the data that is part of the solution instead of the whole repository. So be aware when you are building your repository.
You want to set the Build Definition mapping to only include the source you wish to compile. This means that you don't have to cloak any thing.
Edit Build Configuration
Click on Source Settings (VS 2012), Workspace (VS 2010)
An example specific mapping would look like this:
StatusSource Control Folder Build Agent Folder
Active$/Path/To/The/SolutionOrProjectFolder $(SourceDir)\
This will make the workspace for this build be limited to the solution that you wish to build. Therefore only AssemblyInfo files under that will be visible to your build activity.
If you cannot do this due to how your source control is setup, then I would suggest restructuring your folders within your Source Control.
If you have more than one Build Agent, you should limit the number of agents that the build definition can run against. That will stop multiple copies of the same source been downloaded on to the build machine(s).
The next part you have already answered in you question, by changing the "Clean Workspace" option in your Build Definition to None the build agent will only download the changesets between the current and last build.
Is there a way to create a build definition, in TFS 2010, that uses continuous integration trigger, and only builds the project who's code changed.
To clarify, what I'm searching for is the following scenario:
1 Solution
x Projects in Solution
1 Build Definition per Project
All Builds are CI triggered
When a check-in occours in a project only that project gets built and tested.
Place in your build definition's "Items to build" section of the "Process" tab any *.*proj instead of a *.sln.
In the "Workspace" section, select only the source control paths that relate with this project.
In the process tab, set "Clean Workspace" to "None", use "/t:Build" on the "MSBuild Arguments" and properly configure your projects and their dependencies in the solution. This way on each build, you will be getting the latest code, and then building whatever was modified, and anything that depends on it. This is much more dynamic and requires only one build definition. Let the build system operate as it was designed and leverage the optimized build process.
Does anybody know how can I configure TFS Build to build a set of projects in a solution instead?
The solution I have, has 16 projects but for one of my build definitions I want some of them to be compiled.
The easiest way in my opinion is to create a new solution file. There is nothing stopping you from having several solutions that reference the same projects (or some subset).
The other way is to create a new configuration. In Solution Explorer, rightclick the root node -> Configuration Manager. In addition to standard configs like "debug" or "release" you can create your own custom ones. For each combination of config + platform, you can use the checkboxes below to define which projects will be built and what settings they'll use.
Whatever you choose, you'd edit your TFSBuild.proj file to point to the desired solution and/or configuration. MSDN instructions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399127.aspx
Once you create your build it will make a TFSBuild.proj file in source control (you can right click on the build in Team Explorer and select Configuration Folder to find it.
Open this file and find the tag that has "SolutionToBuild". That tag has sub tags for specifying targets. I think if you enter the projects you want to build in there (semicolon delimited) then it will just build those.
If you have not made your build yet then (as John Saunders said) you can specify the projects in the setup of the build. (After you have set it up you cannot do that again.
I’m trying to set up Team Foundation Build and so far it’s running ok with builds, tests and code analysis.
My problem is, that I can’t figure out how to build just a subset of the projects included in the solution. I know how to use the configuration manager to create custom solution configuration that will build/deploy a selection of my projects. But when I create a new build definition, I only get the default “Debug” and “Release” configurations.
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How do I set up a Team Foundation Build that only includes a selection of the projects in the solution?
I know I may be on the completely wrong track here, but I've been digging around for a while and so far it's my best guess.
Your custom configurations won't appear in the build definition wizard because we don't parse the solution file format. You can, however, just type it in and that will work just fine without manually editing the TFSBuild.proj file.
You will need to edit the TFSBuild.proj file generated by Build Definition created.
I have never used it to specify other configuration, but try using ConfigurationToBuild:
<ItemGroup>
<ConfigurationToBuild Include="Release|Any CPU">
<FlavorToBuild>Release</FlavorToBuild>
<PlatformToBuild>Any CPU</PlatformToBuild>
</ConfigurationToBuild>
</ItemGroup>
I think, you already answer your question: put the subset of the projects into the new solution and create new build definition for this solution.
What other configuration would you expect then Release and Debug?