A good option to customize TFS2010 build workflow is creating a Custom Activity, an operation that is quite different from creating a Custom Code Activity. A custom activity does not contain any code at all and it is only composed by sub activities. This kind of customization is really useful to create pieces of workflow [...]
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TypeMock Isolator is a good library to inject mock objects without the need of interfaces, but what happens when you try to run test that uses typemock isolator inside a tfs 2010 build? Clearly the tests will not succeed
If you look at test result you can check why the tests are failing
Ok, the [...]
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If you have an MSBuild custom task that you want to reuse in a TFS 2010 build workflow, you have two solution. The first is using the MsBuild activity as I described in this post, but this approach has a lot of limitations.
First of all it is clumsy, because you have to pass custom task [...]
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Some time ago I blogged about logging in custom action for TFS build 2010, I left out some details. Suppose you want to create a warning or an error and not a simple message, you need to create a specialized version of the LogWarning that logs a real warning.
You can do the same with [...]
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To test a little bit how you can log information during a TFS 2010 build you can create a simple activity , this activity simply has a Message property and log three messages, at different BuildMessageImportance level
The utility function is the following one
Really simple isn’t it? . Now you need to insert [...]
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