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March 2008 - Posts

Redirecting the copy of output assemblies for individual solutions
I search the net for a while for this problem: We using tfs build to perform a daily build. The following tasks are performed in the build:
  1. Run all tests
  2. Update assembly info

The solution contains the following elements:
  • Web services
  • Client application
  • three windows services

So the solution contains 5 applications. What I was looking for is a way to use the tfsbuild to perform a build and as output to spit the binaries to seperated directories. That helps a lot with deployment.
The core of the problem is that i want to have a single build type in tfs with multiple solutions and multiple output directories. A feature that tfsbuild not support.
And finally I found a post that solves this problem. Manish Agarwal write a post: Redirecting the copy of output assemblies for individual solutions to specified subfolders at drop site in Team Build.
I implemented it in my build and it solves my problem...
No time to read and try
There are a couple of articles I want to read and try it out in a project. But I don't have the time.... :-(