TFS2010 RC and Team Builds

FinalBuilder Discussion
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Hi All,

Just wanted to know how can we run FB builds on the server machine from the developer machines in the network. The server machine does not have visual studio installed (only TFS).

We have already read this article https://www.finalbuilder.com/article...;PageID=26, but don't see any additional menu in the Team Explorer window for FB builds definition.

Shall we install FB on every client machine? Is there the option to install only the Addin?

Thanks,

Alberto

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The FinalBuilder TFS addin is not currently supported under TFS 2010. Builds in TFS2010 are significantly different, and the current FB6 addin will not work as VS2010 TFS2010 have changed too much to make it work. I cannot give an estimate as to when TFS2010 will be supported, or what form that support will take.

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Does it mean that there is no way to get a copy of the Latest Version from source control to some local folder and use MSBuild?

Thanks,

Alberto

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Hi Alberto,

The Team Foundation Source Control actions should be compatible with Visual Studio 2010, so you are able to pull the latest source from a TFS repository from your FinalBuilder project and then use the MSBuild action to compile the source. You just aren’t able to integrate your FinalBuilder project into a TFS2010 team build definition so that team build handles the copying of files and the kicking off of the FinalBuilder project.

Regards,
Paul.

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Doesn’t look like that. We tried the Team Foundation Map Working Folder action an get the error message to set the Tools/Options/Version Control Systems/Team Foundation Source Control. Here, there is a path to TFS executable to be set to something like “…<b>tf.exe” but we cannot find this executable in the machine where TFS 2010 is running.

Thanks,

Alberto

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Hi Alberto,

On our test machine the TF.exe executable is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\TF.exe

Regards,
Paul.

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Now I see the problem, this is a VStudio file not a TFS one. On our server only TFS is installed not Visual Studio. Why should we install Visual Studio on the build server to accomplish this?

Do you think that copying only TF.exe on the build server would suffice?

Any other approach to pull the latest version from TFS with Final Builder?

Thanks,

Alberto

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Hi Alberto,

I doubt copying the files to the machine would work, you’ll need to install Team Explorer on the build machine.

Regards,
Paul.

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It works, thanks!

Alberto