Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Although the Team Build feature in TFS does not support scheduled builds from the user
interface, you can use the Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler to run the TFSBuild
command utility to start builds at a predetermined time.
To create a scheduled build
1. Create a TFSBuild command line as follows:
TfsBuild start
2. Place the command line in a batch file.
3. Create a Windows Scheduled Task that runs the batch file at your desired interval.
Additional Resources
• For more information, see “Chapter 9 – Setting Up Scheduled Build with Team
Build” in this guide.
• For more information about setting up scheduled build, see “How To – Set Up a
Scheduled Build with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server” in this guide.
Test-Driven Development
• Run code analysis on each build.
• Run automated tests on each build.
• Consider setting builds to fail when automated tests fail.
Run Code Analysis on Each Build
Use code analysis as part of the build to improve build quality. You can configure a code
analysis step in the build to help ensure that your code meets certain quality standards,
ensuring that security, performance, portability, maintainability, and reliability rules are
passed.
To turn on code analysis for a build type, you can either select the code analysis check
box in the Team Build Type wizard when you create the new Team Build Type, or you
can modify the TFSBuild.proj file after the build type has been created.
To enable code analysis in the TFSBuild.proj file
• If you want all projects to run code analysis, regardless of project settings, change the
tag to Always.
• If you want to run code analysis on each project based on project settings, change the
tag to Default.
Additional Resources
• For more information about automatic code analysis as part of a build, see “How To –
Automatically Run Code Analysis with Team Build in Visual Studio Team
Foundation Server” in this guide.