Getting the BuildAgent information from a Build

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I have a IBuildDetail variable with the build information I need.

Okay, but when I check the property BuildAgent it's showing this: build.BuildAgent' threw an exception of type 'System.NotImplementedException

Then I tryed to check build.BuildController.Agents, it's nice I found the BuildAgent, but there are 7 build agents in this collection. I need only the build agent related to my build, not all build agents from that controller.

Anyone knows how to get that information? (Select a build agent name or machine name using an IBuildDetail variable)

-> I'm using TFS2010 api and I need to what is the agent for each build

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 28 '11 at 04:39

When the build finishes you should be able to get the agent information from the Information (IBuildInformation) property of IBuildDetail. You can try getting the node with the following type:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.build.common.informationtypes.agentscopeactivitytracking.aspx

and fields:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.build.common.informationfields.reservedagentname.aspx

or

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.build.common.informationfields.reservedagenturi.aspx

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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It's like Duat says.
In order to answer this question, I had the chance to explore this.
The following worked for a given IBuildDetail buildDetail & access to a IBuildServer buildService:

IBuildInformation buildInformation = buildDetail.Information;
IBuildInformationNode[] buildInformationNodes = buildInformation.Nodes;
string agentUri = buildInformationNodes[0].Children.Nodes[3].Fields["ReservedAgentUri"];
IBuildAgent buildAgent = buildService.GetBuildAgent(new Uri(agentUri));

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Feb 29 '12 at 12:10

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Magic number (0, 3) are a "no-no"! Solution from the link you provided is far better - for example function GetBuildAgentName by Hamid Shahid – Andrzej Martyna Mar 18 '14 at 16:37

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 11 '11 at 19:09

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Inside the Run On Agent scope you need to have a GetBuildAgent activity that assigns the BuildAgent details to a variable of type IBuildAgent.

You can then access the properties of that variable to get access to data about the Build Agent: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.build.client.ibuildagent.aspx

Note: The default build workflow does this already.

answered Apr 11 '11 at 19:09

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I'm using the TFS2010 api to access the BuildAgent info. I'm not working with wwf. This is my code: `IBuildDetail build = ..... ; build.BuildAgent ...` -> It throws an exception... – Fabito Apr 12 '11 at 21:19

Getting the BuildAgent information from a Build

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