Running a TeamBuild project from Finalbuilder

FinalBuilder Discussion
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I have several team build projects that start finalbuilder scripts, but is it possible to run a TeamBuild TFSBuild.proj project from Finalbuilder?

Thanks,

LouCan

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I’ll ask Angus to answer this on monday as he is our resident TFS expert, but my thought is no, it’s not probably not possible. While the proj file is an msbuild file, I suscpect it relies a lot on the TFS environment that its run in (ie TFS uses the msbuild assemblies as a custom host, it doesn’t call msbuild.exe).

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Hi Lou,

Vincent is unfortunately correct. AFAIK, Team Build calls a variety of targets in the TFSBuild.proj file in order to build the project. Take a look at the main TFS Build project include file (which is referenced by all the TFSBuild.proj files) to see what all the targets are.

You might be able to create one or more MSBuild actions to do the same thing, calling specific targets and passing in occasional custom parameters, in order to recreate the entire Team Build process, but it would be fairly hard.

If you just want to call the FinalBuilder parts, you can probably just call the specific Targets which contain the FB projects (I assume.)

Please let us know if you get anywhere with this.

Regards,

Angus

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Thanks for the info!  I think I'll just build a team build project that starts my FB project and then returns processing back to the team build tasks.

Thanks,

Lou