SD .NET Developer Group Presentation Resources

John Bowen — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:39:00 GMT

Here are the slides from my “Automating Builds with MSBuild and Team Foundation Server” presentation in 2 formats:

Small PDF (900K)
PowerPoint Show (3.3MB)

And the sample project from my MSBuild demos (look at the project files as XML)

Some other useful links:

Deploying .NET Applications at Amazon
MSBuild on MSDN - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wea2sca5.aspx
Community Tasks - http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/
MSBuild Sidekick - http://www.attrice.info/msbuild/

Team Build Lifecycle

John Bowen — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:58:00 GMT

EndToEndIteration target order with dependencies:

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BeforeEndToEndIteration
BuildNumberOverrideTarget
InitializeEndToEndIteration - Updates drop location

<>
BeforeClean
CoreClean - Deletes all old files
AfterClean
<>

Clean

<>
InitializeBuild - Creates SolutionRoot folder

<>
InitializeWorkspace - Delete and recreate workspace
BeforeGet
CoreGet - Gets all Team Project source
AfterGet
BeforeLabel
CoreLabel - Labels all files in workspace
AfterLabel
<>

PreBuild

<>
BeforeCompile
CoreCompile - Prep and build solutions
AfterCompile
<>

Compile
<>
GetChangeSetsAndUpdateWorkItems - Update reporting
<>
PostBuild
<>
BeforeTest
CoreTest - Run tests and save results
AfterTest
<>
Test
PackageBinaries
<>

TeamBuild

<>
BeforeDropBuild

<>

CoreDropBuild - Copy output and build log to drop location
CopyLogFiles - Copy other logs to drop location
AfterDropBuild
<>

DropBuild
AfterEndToEndIteration
<>

EndToEndIteration

New targets can be added through dependencies at any place marked with a <> by overriding xxxDependsOn properties, where xxx is the target marked in red immediately following the marker.

Targets marked in blue are empty targets designed to be overridden.