The same TFS Build Definition is different for different developers

Question

We're moving our projects to visualstudio.com and it works fine.

I've created some build definitions and changed some default settings. I used Visual Studio 2015 to create and edit the build definitions.

My colleagues can not see all the changes I've made when they view the build definitions on their machines in Visual Studio 2015 and vice versa. Some settings are not updated.

What can cause this issue?

Do they click refresh button after you update the build definitions? Can you share a screenshot for the difference? — Eddie Chen - MSFT, Mar 02 '16 at 08:20
Are you using the new build system or the legacy xaml builds? — MrHinsh - Martin Hinshelwood, Mar 05 '16 at 20:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '16 at 11:34

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We had this issue during our migration from TFS 2010 to 2015. In the end we found two causes for this:

Users were pointed at the wrong TFS server

Users needed to refresh the TFS data in VS

answered Mar 02 '16 at 11:34

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '16 at 07:36

The problem started when we migrated from TFS2010 to VSO.

We're using the legacy xaml build definitions where we eventually found the problem:

Some setting values were enclosed in sharp brackets [] in the xaml.

Removing the sharp brackets solved it. I have no idea why.

The same TFS Build Definition is different for different developers

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