04 March 2008

Redirecting the copy of output assemblies for individual solutions

I search the net for a while for this problem:
We using tfs build to perform a daily build.
The following tasks are performed in the build:

  1. Run all tests

  2. Update assembly info




The solution contains the following elements:

  • Web services

  • Client application

  • three windows services




So the solution contains 5 applications. What I was looking for is a way to use the tfsbuild to perform a build and as output to spit the binaries to seperated directories. That helps a lot with deployment.

The core of the problem is that i want to have a single build type in tfs with multiple solutions and multiple output directories. A feature that tfsbuild not support.

And finally I found a post that solves this problem.
Manish Agarwal write a post: Redirecting the copy of output assemblies for individual solutions to specified subfolders at drop site in Team Build.

I implemented it in my build and it solves my problem...