Comments on: Deploy a database project with tfs build 2010

By: Gian Maria

Gian Maria — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:14:09 +0000

Have you look at detailed logs? If the Delete workspace cannot delete the workspace, maybe some logs will clarify why it is not working.

Anyway, why you want to delete the workspace after each build? It would be better for performance to leave the workspace after the build, so it could be used for the next one.

alk.

By: Dele

Dele — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:54:43 +0000

Hi.

I had another question. I am facing an issue where the workspace created by my DB build isn’t getting deleted. I’m using the deleted workspace activity and setting the DeleteLocalItems to True and the Name to WorkspaceName. I placed this activity immediately after my MSBuild activity to deploy. Is this somehting you have faced or am I just missing somehting? Thanks for your help

By: Xymie

Xymie — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:57:11 +0000

Thnx!

I changed the commandline to this:
“/p:TargetDatabase=” + TargetDatabase +
” /p:”"TargetConnectionString=Data Source=” + TargetServer + “;Integrated Security=true;”"” +
” /p:DeployToDatabase=true”

(and made arguments for TargetDatabase and TargetServer so they can editted outside the xaml)

Next to that I changed the convert workspace item activity to create the dbProject variable with:
BuildDirectory + “\Sources\SQL2005DB\SQL2005DB.dbproj”.

This way the same xaml file will work for a branched solution.

By: Dele

Dele — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:29:18 +0000

Thanks. I was able to get this working finally. I placed it in the “Finally” section of the compile action.

By: alkampfer

alkampfer — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:20:00 +0000

You can place wherever you want, I did the check with the “If can deploy” because usually I want my database to be deployed in test server only if everything is ok, but you can place wherever you want, clearly after the compile action.

alk.

By: Dele

Dele — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:16:54 +0000

I am also having an issue firing my “If can deploy” activity. I am not running any DB Tests, so I placed the activity immediately before the “If Not Disable Tests”. Is there a better place you recommend I place this?

By: Dele

Dele — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:11:39 +0000

Hey,

Awesome. I would like to know the command line argument syntax if I need to use integrated security. Thanks.