Team Foundation Server 2012

Builds: Understand, Configure,

and Customize

Benjamin Day

Who’s this Benjamin Day guy?

• Brookline, MA

• Consultant, Coach, & Trainer

• Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM

• Team Foundation Server, Software Testing, Scrum, Software Architecture

• Scrum.org Classes– Professional Scrum Developer (PSD)

– Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF)

• www.benday.com, benday@benday.com, @benday

Have you heard of

Scrum.org?

http://www.pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/alm-fundamentals

http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/alm-for-developers

Agenda

• Why automated builds?

• Tour of the build system

• Build servers

• Tour of the build script

• Customize your build script

Why automated builds?

• Helps prevent the “works on my box”

problem

• Proves you know how to build your app

• Gives you a solid way to version releases

• Makes integration second nature

Assumption:

local, non-Azure build.

Build Features

• Windows Workflow-based build script

• Gated Check-in builds

• Lab Management builds

• Build server “tagging”

DEMO 1:

THE GRAND TOUR

Build Controllers & Agents

• Controller

– Coordinates builds for a Team Project Collection

(TPC)

– Assigns work to Agents

• Agent(s)

– 1+ agent per controller

– Use “Tags” to define capabilities of each Agent

DEMO 2:

GATED CHECK-IN BUILDS

DEMO 3: TOUR OF THE

BUILD SCRIPT

SO…YOU WANT TO

CUSTOMIZE YOUR BUILD.

Why customize?

• Environment specific configurations

• IIS configuration

• Custom setup commands

• Basically, you can deploy your app.

Create a project to

customize the build script

• Compile time checking

• Create a Windows Workflow project

• Add references to the required TFS

assemblies

• Add references to any other build

assemblies

Create a project to

customize the build script

For future reference, here are the

references…

DEMO 4: CUSTOM BUILD

SCRIPT

DEMO 5: CUSTOM BUILD

WORKFLOW ACTIVITIES

Agenda

• Why automated builds?

• Tour of the build system

• Build servers

• Tour of the build script

• Customize your build script

More Information

• “Levels of TFS Build Automation”, Visual

Studio Magazine, July 2011,

http://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/

2011/07/01/pfcov_TFS2010-Builds.aspx

Thank you.

http://www.benday.com | benday@benday.com