VSoft Technologies Blogs

The Accentient Blog provided an interesting post recently comparing Team Foundation Build and FinalBuilder. It was great to see them offer an unbiased insight in to the distinctive advantages of each of these tools and it's worth a read if you're using or planning to use one or both.

We've had plenty to say over the years about the relationship between FinalBuilder and TFS/MSBuild/Team Foundation Build.

The FinalBuilder team spoke with Steve ‘Sly’ Williams to learn more about how Krome Studios use FinalBuilder to effectively automate their builds. What they discovered is that by helping to simplify the automation process for building games, FinalBuilder provides significant competitive advantages for Krome Studios.

A quick example of the new Python script support in FinalBuilder.

According to Google Analytics, a number of people found the FinalBuilder web site in Google search results for the query 'hate "Team Foundation Server"'. I didn't know so many people felt that way!

Brent was watching me fly through some FinalBuilder operations the other day and he suggested I write a blog post about the best keyboard shortcuts to use.

In FinalBuilder 6, we have done a lot of work to improve the log output formatting. In particular, we wanted to make it easier to find errors, warnings in compiler output.

A quick outline of the new Output Monitors feature in FinalBuilder 6, with a sample project - checking if a file is open on a remote machine. Makes use of the excellent SysInternals tools.

Part Three of a series on PowerShell support in FinalBuilder 6. This post walks through creating a simple custom action, implemented entirely in PowerShell.

Part Two of a series on PowerShell support in FinalBuilder 6. This post shows how to use PowerShell to substantially customize the behaviour of a built-in action.

The power of the PowerShell one-liner, and it's ability to customize FinalBuilder builds. The first in a series on the PowerShell support in FinalBuilder 6.