Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Continuous Integration build provides quick feedback to developers, who can also
configure their CI builds with quality gates to ensure further improvement in your build
quality.
Summary of Steps
• Step 1 – Create and Test your Build
• Step 2 – Install the Continuous Integration Solution
• Step 3 – Configure the Continuous Integration Solution
• Step 4 – Register for the CheckinEvent Event
• Step 5 – Test the Continuous Integration Build
• Step 6 – Set Up E-mail Alerts
Before You Begin
Make sure the account that runs your build service has, Start a build = Allow, permission
in Team Foundation Server.
Step 1 – Create and Test your Build
In this initial step, you create a test build and make sure it works from within the Visual
Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE). If the team build does not work, you
should fix it before moving on to the next step.
1. Create a Microsoft Windows® Form project that you can use for testing the build.
2. Build the project and make sure that it is working correctly.
3. Check your project into source control
4. Create a team build as follows
a. In Team Explorer, right-click Team Builds, and then click New Team Build
Type
b. Complete the self-explanatory Team Build Type Creation Wizard
5. Verify that the team build is working by performing the following steps:
a. In Team Explorer, double-click the Team Build Project you just created.
b. On the Build menu of the Visual Studio instance, click Build Team Project
.
c. Confirm that the correct build type is selected and then click Build.
6. Review the build output and make sure that no errors occurred in the build process.
Important: Make sure your build services account (TFSService) has Full Control
permission to the shared folder for the drops, as specified in Team Build Type Wizard.
Step 2 – Install the Continuous Integration Solution
In this step, you install the solution provided by VSTS team for setting up the CI build.
Detailed information about the solution is available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/enus/library/ms364045(VS.80).aspx