End To End Build Automation With Team Build

“ Welcome”

A few quick thanks… New Horizons for providing facilities for our Hands On Lab day Breeze Training for picking up the tab for the Brekkie & Newspapers Microsoft for allowing us to use their great venue Muffin Break for the wonderful breakfast served this morning

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Final session coming up

27th Oct 2006 - " Best Practices: Driving up quality using VSTS (Test & Build) “ with Chuck & Marty

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Hands on Lab day

Friday 10 th November 2006

Free registration open for either of the following sessions;

Morning 9:00 – 12:30 - or -

Afternoon 1:00 – 4:30

Supported by

QLD VSTS Users Group

Please complete registration form provided if you wish to register for the user group

Current plan is for a Friday morning Breakfast event on 1 st Friday of each month

Inaugural meeting Friday 1 st December 06

Website due in the next week or two

www.qvstsug.org

“ End to end build automation using Team Build” William Bartholomew Developer Productivity Specialist, TechnologyOne

Who Am I?

Developer Productivity Specialist TechnologyOne, Brisbane

Technical Reviewer of Code Complete 2 nd Edition by Steve McConnell

Technical Reviewer of .NET Standard Library Annotated Reference Volume 2 by Brad and Tamara Abrams

Member of Microsoft UI Frameworks Advisory Council (ASP .NET and Smart Client)

MSDN Forum Moderator

Agenda

Introduction to MSBuild

Introduction to Team Build

Creating a Build Type

Executing a Build

Default Process

Editing Build Types

Build Process Customisation

Writing Custom Tasks

Resources

Introduction to MSBuild

Microsoft supported build engine

XML-based configuration file

Intellisense available from Visual Studio using supplied schema

Ships with .NET Framework 2.0, it is NOT part of Team Foundation Server

Both Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server leverage MSBuild

Command-line utility - MSBuild.exe

MSBuild Concepts

Projects

The root concept in MSBuild

Defines the build process

Properties

Name/value pairs

Items

Set of objects (commonly files)

Can specify meta-data to be applied to the objects

MSBuild Concepts

Targets

Defines a number of sequential tasks

Projects can have initial and/or default targets

Tasks

Performs an operation

Uses properties and items

Extensible

Examine a .vbproj File

Demo

How does this work?

Extends Microsoft.VisualBasic.targets

Which extends Microsoft.Common.targets

What is Team Build?

Service

Properties

Targets

What does Team Build do out-of-the-box?

Clean the build area

Retrieve latest version of source code

Label source code

Compile one or more solutions

Run code analysis and tests

Deploy binaries to a drop folder

Provide centralised logging and reporting

Extends Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets

Supports customisation

Configuration files

Customisable properties

Customisable targets

Supports extensibility

Custom tasks

Team Foundation API

Build eventing

Creating a Build Type

Demo

Creates three files in Source Control

TfsBuild.proj

TfsBuild.rsp

WorkspaceMapping.xml

Best Practices

Avoid spaces in the name

Choose a long-term name

Executing a Build

Demo

From within Visual Studio

From the Command-Line (TfsBuild.exe)

Also allows you to stop a build and delete builds

From the API

Continuous Integration

Default Build Process

Generate build number

Clean

Get

Label

Compile

Create work items

Test

Drop

Desktop Build Process

Compile

Test

No status report

Not part of build history

Launched from the command-line:

MSBuild TfsBuild.proj /p:SolutionRoot=....

Editing Build Types

Directly edit the files in Source Control

Team Build will automatically get the latest version for each build

Because these are stored in Source Control we can reproduce any previous build, but make sure you keep your build dependencies in Source Control

Editing Build Types

Demo

Attrice Team Build Sidekick

Each step in the build process provides customisation points

BeforeEndToEndIteration, AfterEndToEndIteration

BuildNumberOverrideTarget

BeforeClean, AfterClean

BeforeGet, AfterGet

BeforeLabel, AfterLabel

BeforeCompile, AfterCompile

Customisation points continued

BeforeTest, AfterTest

BeforeDropBuild, AfterDropBuild

BeforeOnBuildBroke, AfterOnBuildBroke

You can override the other targets, but beware!

Demo

Override build number

Get

SkipGet

ForceGet

RecursiveGet

Partial get using WorkspaceMapping.xml

Skip process step variables

SkipClean

SkipGet

SkipLabel

SkipInitializeWorkspace

SkipPostBuild

SkipDropBuild

SkipWorkItemCreation

Location variables

WorkspaceName

SolutionRoot

BinariesRoot

TestResultsRoot

Demo

Work Item Creation

Change Assigned To

Either implement Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask

Or, inherit Microsoft.Build.Utilities.Task

Provide Team System “awareness” by passing $(TeamFoundationServerUrl) and $(BuildURI) as properties

Avoid requiring Team System when not necessary

XML attributes are passed through as properties

Properties can be marked <Required()>

Properties can be marked <Output()>

Most intrinsic types are supported

Arrays of these types are also supported, delimited using ; in XML

Use <UsingTask> to reference your custom task

Demo

Resources

My Blog http://blog.bartholomew.id.au/

MSDN Forums http://forums.microsoft.com/forums/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=5

OzTFS Mailing List http://www.oztfs.com/

Resources

Attrice Team Build Sidekick http://www.attrice.info/cm/tfs/TeamBuildAddin.htm

Team System Widgets http://accentient.com/widgets.aspx

Thank you for attending

Don’t forget

Chuck and Marty’s session on “Best Practices: Driving up quality using VSTS (Test & Build)” next Friday.

Check out the Hands on Lab day on the www.vststechbrekkie.com site

End To End Build Automation With Team Build

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