One of the greatest news of yesterday was the availability of the TEam Foundation Server on Windows Azure. I can assure you that there is a huge hunting for invitation code (mine 5 are terminated after few minutes ) and this demonstrates the high interest that people have against TFS on Azure. Clearly the other [...]

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I’m happy to announce that on 4 of July 2010 the community TFS Build extensions project on codeplex published its first stable release. TFS 2010 build system is based on Workflow Foundation and this means that you can extend writing custom activities (I blogged quite a lot about TFS Build in the past) or using [...]

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In a very old post I explained how to enable code coverage in TFS2010 builds and today I received a mail asking an interesting question. The question is: “Is it possible to have Code Coverage result to be included in drop folder?”. Answering this question is a two phase process, the first one is understanding [...]

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In several posts of the past I dealt with customization of TFS 2010 build, but I never pointed out how to create a personalized build that can be used without always resorting to edit the workflow directly. Suppose you work heavily with database projects, and you need to deploy database project to different server in [...]

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If you read this post you learn how to show custom informations in a build, and this is one of the coolest stuff you can do to improve reporting from the buil. In the original example Jason shows how to show informations of a standard object called PlatformConfiguration. This is very useful if you need [...]

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