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Automated Builds using the Team Foundation Server / Visual Studio Team Services build system

Questions related to TFS builds, either in on-premise TFS or in Visual Studio Team Services. This includes task-based builds in TFS 2015/Visual Studio Team Services, TFS 2010-2015 and VSTS builds based on Windows Workflow build process templates, and MSBuild-based builds in from early on-premise versions of Team Foundation Server.

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Visual Studio Team Services Release Definition - Task to rename a file?

How can I rename a file in a release definition in Visual Studio Team services? Is there a built-in or marketplace task available or otherwise, how can this be achieved? Answer: Add the "Inline PowerShell" task from the marketplace Enter the…
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How to delete/unregister build agent on TFS 2015

I have set up TFS 2015 with dedicated server to store the build agent. However, when I delete the build agent on TFS 2015 app server, it still show up on build server, in windows "Services" Now the build server display error because the service…
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Tfs 2010 Build: Continuous Integration and Gated Check-In together?

I already have a CI build running on my Tfs2010 instance, but I'd like to get a Gated checkin build running as well. There are subtle differences between the ways I would like these two builds would run, however. Specifically, I'd like the Gated…
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Building specific branches on Visual Studio Team Services

I have a repository in VS Team Services which is setup as : -root | | -Dev (.sln) | | -Releases | | - Test (.sln) | - Live (.sln) Each build is working fine, however its pulling the entire repo and I just want it to pull a…
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TFS build agent cannot locate npm

On a locally hosted TFS I'm using the "npm install" build step in my build definition. On the agent machine I have installed nodejs and can run npm from the command line. When I attempt to queue the build I get a pop up with the message: No agent…
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Automated generation of database change scripts

I'm looking for a way to automated the generation of change scripts for our databases. Currently we use Visual Studio 2008 database edition, which has the Schema Compare option, but I don't see a way to automated those actions. What I'd like to do…
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How do I get rid of "API restriction UnitTestFramework.dll already loaded" error?

The following error pops up every now and then: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\TeamTest\Microsoft.TeamTest.targets(14,5): error : API restriction: The assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio…
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Large TFSUser\AppData\Local\Temp Directory on Build Machine

I'm using TFS 2012 Update 1 on Windows Server 2008 R2. We have the TFS build running under the account TFSUser. The other day we ran out of space on our build machine. Upon investigation I found that the folder C:\Users\TFSUser\AppData\Local\Temp…
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How can I disable work item creation at the end of a failed Team Foundation Build?

I'm using Team Foundation Build but we aren't yet using TFS for problem tracking, so I would like to disable the work item creation on a failed build. Is there any way to do this? I tried commenting out the work item info in the TFSBuild.proj file…
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Why and when to have multiple build agents?

Consider TFS 2010's ability for a Build Controller to have 1+ build agents. Since builds are a subjective topic to the team/environment, consider an environment where builds are performed on commit/check-in. Each Project Collection will have 10+…
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Code coverage not working TFS build

I have enabled the code coverage in the build definition for a project in TFS. It's building as expected, unit tests are running as well but code coverage shows "No build coverage data available" see the screenshot below. Any help is appreciated.
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How to get PAT from on-premise TFS2015

We want to migrate our custom steps from XAML build to new build task in TFS2015 on-premise. I installed NodeJS and tfx-cli but when tfx-cli want to connect to TFS I need to provide pat (personal access token) but I cannot find where I can get it.…
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TFS Build error after installing Visual Studio 2015 Update 1

I installed Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 onto our build server and now I am getting errors copying the Typescript/Javascript files after the compilation completes. C:\Program Files …
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WriteBuildMessage not displayed

Consider this simple msbuild script (xaml): I have a tfs build definition…
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TFS drop, exclude obj folder using minimatch pattern

I'm setting up TFS 2015 on-prem and I'm having an issue on my last build step, Publish Build Artifacts. For some reason, the build agent appears to be archiving old binaries and I'm left with a huge filepath:…
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