Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Additional Resources
• For more information about project alerts, see “Setting Alerts” at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181334(VS.80).aspx
How to Receive Notification When a Build Has Failed
You can create a new project alert with a filter to receive e-mails only when the build
fails.
To create a project alert to notify you when a build fails
1. Create and Test your Build. Make sure that you have a Team Build type in place
and that it runs without errors.
2. Register for BuildCompletionEvent event. Use the BisSubscribe.exe tool to
register for the BuildCompletionEvent event with a filter specifying that you only
want the e-mail notification when the build fails, by using the following commandline
syntax:
bissubscribe /eventType BuildCompletionEvent /address myemail@domain.com /deliveryType
EmailPlaintext /server tfsserver1 /filter "TeamProject = 'MyTeamProject' AND
CompletionStatus=‘Failed’“
3. Test the build. Test the build by checking in code that fails to compile, execute the
build, and ensure that an e-mail notification is received.
Additional Resources
• For more information about filtering the build completion event, see “How to Filter
the Build Completion Event” at
http://blogs.msdn.com/jpricket/archive/2006/09/05/how-to-filter-the-buildcompletion-event.aspx
• For more information about BuildCompletionEvent filters, see “Useful
BuildCompletionEvent Filters” at
http://blogs.msdn.com/jpricket/archive/2006/09/05/useful-buildcompletioneventfilters.aspx
How to Start a Build
You can start a build type from the Team Builds folder in Team Explorer.
To manually start a build
1. Open Team Explorer.
2. Expand the team project for which you want to start a build.
3. Expand the Team Builds folder in the tree.
4. Right-click the Team Build type you want to start.
5. Select Build Team Project.
How to Verify That the Build Succeeded
You can check build status from the Builds window, accessible from Team Explorer.