Pierre-Emmanuel Dautreppe

I just published a second article on www.developpez.com about "Continous Integration in the Microsoft.NET World".
Here I will present this article and the full summay of these two articles.
Some of the key part of this article are about :
- Writing a basic project file using MsBuild
- How to use Properties and PropertyGroup
- How to use Items and ItemGroup
- How to execute a project file in command line
- How to use the .NET 3.5 tasks
- How to control targets
- Refactoring the project file
- Creating custom tasks
- Some information about TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Just two must-read tutorials about MsTest, Static Code Analysis, MsBuild and TfsBuild. [Plus]

I just published a long article (in french) on www.developpez.com about continuous integration in the Microsoft.NET world. You will find here the table of content of this article :
- Quick introduction to continuous integration
- Quick presentation of the tools needed for Continuous Integration (in the Microsoft.NET world)
- Unit Test : Writing unit tests with MsTest
- Unit Test : Executing tests with MsTest
- Unit Test : Configuring tests
- Unit Test : Managing the tests
- Unit Test : Additional attributes
- Static Code Analysis : Presentation
- Static Code Analysis : Correcting the errors
- Static Code Analysis : Limitations

I will soon publish a second article that will focus that time on MsBuild and TfsBuild. You will see also a first insight on the table of content of this second article. [Plus]

Between TFS (Team Foundation Server) 2005 and 2008, there has been a modification in the default parameter value for the verbosity of the build process. It was set to "normal" before and is now set to "diagnostic" by default.
We'll see here how we can change this parameter for builds using the ".rsp" file and the parameter "/fileloggerparameters". I will also recall the different verbosity levels that exist in MsBuild. [Plus]

It was possible under Visual Source Safe, but not under TFS 2005.

It has been added in TFS 2008. How to use it ?

tf destroy itemspec
tf destroy $/MyTeamproject/MyItemToDestroy [Plus]

Few days ago, I was needing to be able to retrieve some informations about the builds we had launched. I was so needing to work with the TFS API.
We'll see in this post how to use this API to retreive :
- the list of builds
- the list of platform and flavor that were configured for this build
- the test results for a given platform / flavor
The code shown will use the TFS 2005 API. [Plus]