Archive for the 'Team Foundation Server' Category

There doesn’t seem to be a way to create GUIDs out-of-the-box in MSBuild or through the MSBuild community tasks, so I created a custom task to do it for you.
Usage:
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This task creates a new GUID using System.Guid.NewGuid()
The Format parameter is optional. If specified it must be one of “N” “D” “B” “P” “”. [...]


Back in February, Chuck put together a few lists of blogs from the various Visual Studio Team System teams at Microsoft and the MVPs. It’s great that he was able to bring them all together, but it’s quite an effort to subscribe to all of them individually.
So I’ve put together a nice and easy to [...]


Today marks a year since I was first awarded a Microsot Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for my contribution to the Visual Studio Team System community.
Ironically as I’m preparing to spend the day answering questions at today’s Microsoft 2008 Wave Launch, I received an e-mail:
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® [...]


Since I launched TFSBuild.com - the Team Build & MSBuild Recipes site earlier this year, it’s been averaging ~50 visits a day.

There’s some great recipes up now thanks to some contributors like dmcewing, Michael Ruminer, Martin Woodward, Mike Douglas and Eugene Zakhareyev.

Keeping the Build Number and Assembly Version in sync
Build and Assembly [...]