Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Additional Resources
• For more information about cloaking folders in a workspace, see “How to: Cloak and
Decloak Folders in a Workspace” at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/enus/library/ms181378(VS.80).aspx
• For more information about making Team Build ignore folders, see “How to make
‘Team Build’ skip getting certain folders?” at
http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal/archive/2005/10/13/480584.aspx
• For more information about the WorkspaceMapping schema, see “Schema for the
WorkspaceMapping.xml file” at
http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2007/02/28/schema-for-the-workspacemappingxml-file.aspx
How to Build a Project with Dependencies on Another Team Project
Team Build does not support building solutions that cross team projects. To enable this,
you must customize the TFSBuild.proj file to check out the code you need from the other
projects on which your build depends.
To build a project with dependencies on another team project, you need to get the source
or assemblies from that project into the workspace on your build server. To do this, you
need to edit your TFSBuild.proj file to add the assembly or the solution reference and
override the BeforeGet event to get assemblies or sources from each of the team projects
on which you have a dependency.
To build a project that has dependencies on another team project
1. Check out the TFSBuild.proj script from Source Control Explorer.
2. Add the following configuration setting under the PropertyGroup section:
$(TeamBuildRefPath)\..\tf.exe
true
SkipInitializeWorkSpace allows you to skip invoking the default tasks to delete and
re-create the workspace on the build machine. The new property is used in the custom
target BeforeGet (see below).
3. Add the following configuration setting to the ItemGroup entries that map both the
Team Projects and the solutions. Make sure that you provide the correct local paths
for the build machine. Multiple mappings cannot share the same local folder and will
result in a MappingConflictException exception in the CreateWorkspace task.