Monthly Archives: October 2006
Planning ahead… Deprecation
Spending a little time planning and researching can often extend a products economically sustainable lifespan by a substantial amount. Let’s take a quick look at this from a SQL perspective in this fictional example: Project A comes along and you … Continue reading
Beware % in MSBuild
Here is a very basic example: <Project DefaultTargets="Full" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"><ItemGroup><Ingredients Include="0%Good"/><Ingredients Include="100%Bad"/></ItemGroup><Target Name="Full"><Message Text="%(Ingredients.Identity)"/></Target></Project> It’s a simple cycle through a collection and showing a message. If you think the output is 0%Good100%Bad then you would be wrong. It is in fact: 0%Good100ºd … Continue reading
Display Custom Build Steps in the Team Build IDE
Once you start overriding targets and creating a more complex build project, you may find that the minimal build steps provided in the build IDE get a little frustrating. There are a few samples that show how to display custom … Continue reading
Note To Self: Team Foundation Server Knowledge Base Articles
I just know I’ll be needing something from here some day soon. Check out this great post for Team Foundation Server Knowledge Base Articles
Visual Studio Team & MSBuild DeskSheet
Following along the same lines of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Query DeskSheet that I put together, here is a DeskSheet in pdf format summarising Microsofts build engines, MSBuild and Team Build which ships with Team Foundation Server.
Quiet Patch…on the blog at least!
I’ve got quite a bit going on at the moment, so don’t expect a post here till around the weekend… I’m putting together a Team Build DeskSheet (like the SQL 2005 Query DeskSheet). Also looking into building a subscription application … Continue reading
