Create basic build definition in VS2010

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team.

In this blog I will show “How to create basic build definition”.

Pre-requisites:

Build definition helps in setting up automated build generation, compile source, generate bits to a preconfigured shared folder.

Steps to create build definition:

Launch Visual Studio (VS) 2010
Select the team project in team explorer
Click on Build –> New Build Definition menu
Enter build definition name and description
Click on trigger, select one of the required check-in trigger options. example continuous integration build each check-in – this build is queued in every time chance is checked in the files that are built by this definition
Click on workspace, select the source bits which will be compiled, example: the test automation project (checked in TFS)
Click on build defaults, select build controller, enter the share folder path to which compiled bits and log files to be copied
Click on process, select the project to build example the test automation project
Click on test assembly, enter test assembly file
Select the required build definition format, example when build is completed build definition name along with date format folder will be created in shared folder and the bits will be copied in the folder.
Save the build definition

We are good to use build definition.

- Syed Aslam Basha ( syedab@microsoft.com )

Microsoft Information Security Tools (IST) Team

Test Lead

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Comments

Anonymous
December 28, 2010
But how do I customize the build activities .xaml file, surely we don't need all of the activities in the default template. Thanks!
Anonymous
June 23, 2011
Hi Allen, Click on show details in process tab and you can create new template/update the xaml file and use it. Best Regards Syed