Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

How to Create Multiple Build Types
To create multiple build types—for example, Release for Customers or Debug for Test
Team—use separate team builds for each build type that interests you.
To create a team build
13. Open Team Explorer.
14. Expand the team project for which you want to create a build.
15. Right-click the Team Builds folder in the tree.
16. Select New Team Build Type…
17. Specify the name of the new team build type and click Next.
18. Select the projects you wish to build, this should include the project that contains
your unit tests.
19. Select a build configuration (e.g. release or debug) and click Next.
20. Specify the name of your build server, e.g. TFSRTM
21. Specify a local build directory on your build server, e.g. c:\builds
22. Specify a drop location for your build output, e.g. \\TFSRTM\NightlyBuilds and
then click Next.
23. Click the Run tests checkbox, select the test list you want to associate with the build,
and then click Next.
24. Click Finish to create the team build type.
How to Create a Team Build for a Project That References Assemblies
from Another Project
To build a project that has 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 in order to add the assembly or the solution
reference and override the BeforeGet event to get assemblies or sources from each of the
required team projects.
To build a project that references assemblies in 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.