Questions tagged [tfsbuild]

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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SSIS deployment and execution

Have been reading and following tutorials on Microsoft Business Intelligence. And i would like to clarify some things. So, as i have read and practiced, there is no technically build process like that of 'maven' or 'msbuild' kind of in MSBI. i am…
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TFS Build error - Bug 36816, New Bug created during the build

I am using VS2015 update 3. I am getting following errors when doing TFS Build. TFS Build errors are below or this link I have tried my level best to solve the 4 errors first but it is not solving by anyhow. Today, I have downgraded my .net…
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TFS Build error on Coded UI Test

I have a newly created coded UI test project that I checked into TFS. When it tries to build it fails and I have these two errors: The type or namespace name 'UITesting' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you…
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Is it possible to share a custom xaml build definition with a git and a tfvc team project?

We are trying to migrate from tfvc to git and the most difficult part would be to recreate the builds. The codebase is still the same so is there any possible way to share these custom definitions or atleast copy paste most of it into a new build…
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Issue with visual studio build agent behind a proxy

I am currently setting up continuous integration using Visual Studio Team Services with onsite build agents, but I am having issues with my company's proxy. I have tried adding the .proxy file but my company's proxy is still blocking it (it is a…
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TFS Build Ignores Project Dependencies After Upgrade to TFS2010

I've just migrated our Team Projects from TFS2008 to a new TFS2010 server and everything seems to be going well except for one thing (so far). I have a TFS build that worked fine on TFS2008 and works fine on my machine, but when it is built by…
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Build Multiple Projects in a Single Solution for VSTS

I'm in this case, I have a single solution built on Visual Studio 2013. It contains more than 10 projects that reference each others, I need only to build and release 3 projects of them on Azure via Visual Studio Team Services so the question is…
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Force a specific version param when packing a nuget in TFS build

I'm trying to setup a TFS build to publish a nuget version using a different version than the one specified by the build number (I use a string for the build definition name in the build number format and would like to keep it this way). I'm passing…
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How to identify whether build task is getting executed in TFS or VSTS?

I need to identify whether a build task is getting executed in TFS or in VSTS, this logic need to execute from build task itself at execution time. Is there an environment variable to get this value? Thanks in advance.
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TFS Build server Xamarin MsBuild Exception

I have visual studio 2015 installed on the Build server with Xamarin installed. I followed the tutorial on the Xamarin web site here I also logged into my xamarin account on the build server. I followed the xamarin creating a build definition on the…
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What formats are accepted in VSTS logging commands?

When using the logging commands (documentation here), there are many string-only properties, but there are also several GUID and time properties especially for the task.logdetail command. What format are these properties supposed to be when written…
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Team Build 2008/MSBuild Copy Task throwing error when attempting to copy files

As part of an automated build, I clear out a directory, and copy the latest versions of the source files to this directory. First, I set up the list of files I wish to copy:
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Why does Gulp return code 255 in VSTS?

I'm attempting to use Node + Gulp during a Visual Studio Online build process via a Hosted Agent. The first step (Node Install) works correctly, however the second returns : [command]C:\NPM\Modules\gulp.cmd --gulpfile…
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TFS On Premise Build Agent - Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel

I have setup one TFS On-Premise Build Agent as a service using the instructions listed here. I setup the accompanying Agent pool, permissions, build controller, etc.. and worked through most of the setup challenges around getting the agent to…
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How to turn off TFS alerts on Release

I have a continuous integration build set up. On check-in, it builds the solution, and then starts a release to DEV for each piece. When those releases get done, I get an email for each separate release (every time someone checks in). How do I…
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