I've seen the question related to the error message you get from TFS when a workspace is already mapped. The accepted answer for removing the workspace is alright as a workaround, but it's already getting tedious to run a delete command each time this error occurs.
What do I need to change in order to get out of having to use this workaround? I've got two builds (continuous integration and nightly deploy), and need to add at least one more build type. I followed this URL to see if there was a possible resolution there, but I'm not sure I understand it completely.
I am not sure how this is accomplished in TFS 2010, as I have not gotten to work with Team Build in 2010, yet. In 2008, though, if you expand the Builds node in the Team Project and right-right click on either of the builds, you will see a "Manage Build Agents..." option. Click into that, and it will bring up a dialog. One of the things on that dialog is an option called "Working Directory". Do you have the same hard-coded path in both of them?
By default, when you create a new build definition, it provides a calculated folder for this value. This is where the build agent will do the checkout from TFS for the build attempt. The default value is, $(Temp)\$(BuildDefinitionPath), I believe (I am not connected to TFS at the moment).
The article you link to is basically saying that you should include either that $(BuildDefinitionPath) value or the $(BuildDefinitionID) value as part of that path in that dialog so that the two builds do not try to use the same workspace. Changing the working folder to include one of those values should resolve your issue, going forward.
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I am using Visual Studio Online. I have projects which have common code that I use across a number of different solutions in different TFS projects and I also have some files which are linked from other TFS projects in some of them. In order to be able to access them all, I've changed the Workspace config so that I have just mapped $/ to a particular folder.
The problem is that I just checked in a change in one project and noticed that it also checked in a change in a completely unrelated one that wasn't part of the solution at all! How can I configure things to be able to access everything that I need to without cross-checking-in files from unrelated projects (and without having to manually exclude/include files in every check in)!?
EDIT: I've noticed that this doesn't seem to have happened again on my last couple of check ins when I also had items from other projects checked out. Wondering what caused it.
You should look at a NuGet solution for this. If you are using VSO you can use the new MyGet integration with an automated build process. If you create an automated build for the shared project output that is packaged in a NuGet package you can create a NuGet repository ion MyGet to provide it to your other solutions.
Once you have that, if you then change the shared code and check in, the build and package will kick off and deploy your new version of the package. Your other solutions will then prompt you to update automatically. You don't even need to check in the dependent assemblies as you can use NuGet Package Restore to make sure your local and build server get the right versions.
It sounds like a lot of work but once you get up to speed it only takes a few hours of investment to configure for anything you want to share or deploy in this way.
In the Pending Changes section of Team Explorer, in the Included Changes section there is a drop down. If it's set to "Show All" you'll see changes pending for all your solutions. If it's set to "Show Solution Changes" you'll just see changes pending for the current solution. (My guess is that it was set to "Show All" when you checked in your changes and that's why you got changes from other solutions checked in.)
I have setup a build controller etc and the builds were failing, I have fixed these now and the build failed properly - as in because of an error.
I have fixed the error and checked the code back in but now the code is not being extracted, although sometimes one folder of many is.
I have deleted the code from the build machine and requeued a build but it keeps failing. It complains that it cannot find the solution that I specified as the build solution.
I have checked the check box to build even if nothing has changed.
Have I missed a setting somewhere for extracting the code?
TFS version is 2012 Express
Visual Studio version is 2010 Professional
I had this issue recently with TFS 2012. I think it boils down to this:
In the lastest build definition files, it appears that it performs a Clean task before updating the workspace. This means that if you do something that causes the Clean part of the build to fail, it will never download the new files in order to fix it.
Recently, I was making big changes to my build file and inevitably made a lot of mistakes, I found that if one of these mistakes caused the Clean to break, I had to go onto the Build server and change the file manually to get it working again.
Does this sound like it might be the same issue?
There are several properties in your build definition you can check. I would start with setting the "Clean Workspace" to All to ensure the correct code is being pulled down and built.
There are other checks you can look at as well like the agent set for the build and the "GetVersion" property. Check the below link out. It should be able to help you in more detail.
Define a Build Process that is Based on the Default Template
Here is my situation.
I setup a build definition for continuous integration using the new workflow system. Then I targeted this definition to a particular solution. I checked-in my solution many times without a problem and the builds have all passed flawlessly on the server.
This morning, I notice that it has been executed but I did not checked-in the solution. I finally discover that when a colleague checked-in another solution, it executed the definition for the solution I am working on.
I am using the original ProcessTemplate.xaml file. I only want this build definition to be executed when I check-in a particular solution or a set of solution I chose. What do I miss here?
Thanks.
There are two things you need to do,
1. Edit build defination and click on the process tab, change the 'Items to Build' to the solution that you are interested to be build as part of your build.
2. Click on the workspace tab and point it only to the branch or specifically to the folder which logically excludes the solutions that you would like to exlude from this ci build.
Make sure you carry these steps across your build definations.
HTH.
Cheers, Tarun
In the TFS 2010 build definition window, under “Process” there are two required items. They are “Configurations to build” and “Projects to build”. Under projects to build, it will allow me to enter something like:
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/*
However, this doesn’t seem to do what I expect. The build fails because it’s looking for:
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/Sources/*
What I am trying to achieve by this is to build all the solutions held under this area. For example, I have:
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/Solution1/Solution1.sln
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/Solution2/Solution2.sln
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/Solution3/Solution3.sln
There are many more solutions than this, which is why I’m looking for a way to build all solutions under the specified path recursively. Is there a way to do this in TFS 2010?
You can modify the process template. Expand it with the Matching files (I don't have the exact naming now) activity. Add a parameter that passes the information you set in the build defintion to the MachingFiles actvity. Then pass into the build solution activity instead of the argument that you enter in the build definition the files that is found by the MatchingFiles activity.
Now add a dummy solution in the build definition for the solution to build (it is not used anymore).
See the blog post series on the build customization for more information on customizing the build process template.
FWIW,
I've got: "configurations to build" blank
and under "projects to build" I've added my solutions via the ellipsis button
I would setup mappings for
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/Solution1/
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/Solution2/
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/Solution3/
Then in the build definitions enter the three projects to build
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/Solution1/Solution1.sln
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/Solution2/Solution2.sln
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2/Solution3/Solution3.sln
You can leave the configurations to build as blank, or if you want to do a certain build you can set it to (for example) something like Debug|Mixed Platforms (check your Configuration Manager... for the solutions you are building to see what is valid)
Alternatively, you can just map the following (depending on how much you have in this folder, if you have Solutions 4+ that you don't want to trigger builds on, don't do it at this level)
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2
And have one solution which contains the Solution1, Solution2 and Solution3, and build that instead.
By default building your Solution1 which is mapped to
$/TeamProject/Area1/Area2
On a build agent with a working directory that is going to looks something like:
$(SystemDrive)\Builds\$(BuildAgentId)\$(BuildDefinitionPath)
You'll end up with it being build under
C:\Builds\1\Solution1\Binaries
C:\Builds\1\Solution1\Sources
C:\Builds\1\Solution1\TestResults
Which is why you want to make sure that your OutDir's etc are all correct and not hard coded!
If you have a look while building, you'll see the build agent populating the Sources folder, and it should (if configured correctly) put all outputs into the Binaries folder (and then copy them to the Drop Folder configured under Build Defaults in TFS.
I have a Team Foundation Server 2008 Installation and a separate machine with the Team Build service.
I can create team builds and trigger them manually in Visual Studio or via the command line (where they complete successfully). However check ins to the source tree do not cause a build to trigger despite the option to build every check in being ticked on the build definition. Update: To be clear I had a fully working build definition with the CI option enabled.
The source tree is configured is a pretty straight forward manner with code either under a Main folder or under a Branch\branchName folder. Each branch of code (including main) has a standard Team Build definition relating to the solution file contained within. The only thing that is slightly changed from default settings is that the build server working folder; i.e. for main this is Server:"$\main" Local:"c:\build\main" due to path length.
The only thing I've been able to guess at (possible red herring) is that there might be some oddity with the developer workspaces. Currently each developer maps Server:"$\" to local:"c:\tfs\" so that there is only one workspace for all branches. This is mainly to avoid re-mapping problems that some of the developers had previously gotten themselves into. But I can't see how this would affect CI.
UPDATE: Ifound the answer indirectly; please read below
Ok I have found the answer myself after several dead ends. In the end I fixed this unintentionally while fixing another issue. Basically we had just turned on the automatic execution of unit tests for our builds. The test would run sucessfully but then immediately the build would bomb out with a message saying it was unable to report to the build drop folder.
What was happening was that while the Build service runs under one account and has a set of rights; some of the functionality is actually driven through the TFSService account. fter wading a heap of permissions I had my tests being reported. Then I noticed that builds had started to trigger on check-ins; I can't tell you exactly which permission fixed this but hopefully this answer will at least set people down the right path.
One other note a few of the builds started failing due to conflicting workspace mappings - this was a separate issue that I resolved by deleting some obsolete workspaces using the Attrice Sidekicks for Team Foundation tool.
Hope this helps somebody else.
Select your team project from team explorer, then right click on the Builds folder. Select a new build definition and then select the trigger tab. Move the radio button to "Build each check-in (more builds)"
More info can be found here
MSDN How to: Create a Build Definition
Are there any errors in the log on the TFS application server? Anything that indicates that it tried to fire but failed?