Project Description
The Community TFS Build Extensions site provides a place for build engineers to share workflow activities, build process template files, and tools for Team Foundation Build.

Help Us!

We would like to build an installer or VSIX package (for use in the Visual Studio Gallery) to allow us to install our activities pack to the Toolbox automatically for the Workflow Designer. However, we need the Visual Studio product team to include support for us to be able to do this.

If you are interested in this type of deployment, please help us by voting for this feature request on the Workflow Team's User Voice site here: Support Adding Workflow Activities to Toolbox. Thanks for your support!

Call for Content

This project is open for contributions from anyone working with Team Build, if you have a particular template, activity, or tool you'd like to contribute or have an idea for something you'd like to see implemented then leave a message in Discussions.

For more information about Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation, visit http://www.windowsworkflow.com.
For more information about the standard TFS 2010 Build workflow activities, visit this MSDN Article.

Books that Cover Customizing TFS 2010 Build

• Professional Team Foundation Server 2010, Wrox
• Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Microsoft Press

Externally Hosted Workflow Activities

Some activities are tightly bound to 3rd party products. Due to these requirements these activities are not included directly in this project but hosted on other sites.

• TFS Build 2010 Activity to run Typemock Isolator based tests (also has details for TFS 2012)
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server Build Extensions Power Tool
  • Ant Task and Workflow Activity
  • Maven 2 Task and Workflow Activity
  • JUnit Task and Workflow Activity

Build Process Templates

• Deploying Process Templates and Work Item Type Definition Changes
• Building in Parallel Across Multiple Build Agents

Tools

• AIT Build Suite of Tools (Free)

Team Build 2005/2008 Recipes

• Running Unit Tests without a Test List
• Keeping the Build Number and Assembly Version in sync
• Build and Assembly versioning (alternate to above using SDC Tasks)
• Update the version number on a C++ project
• WiX MSI Setup Package
• .NET 1.1 Applications
• Building Java Applications
• Deploy MSIs from TFS Build
• Deploying Web Applications to IIS
• Xcopy deployment of a Web Application
• Copying Files From DropLocation or Similar Location
• Building Sandcastle Documentation
• Build Notification with Lava Lamps and Street Lights
• Add a Custom Message To A Build Report
• Create Manifest.txt Listing Dropped Files

MSBuild Recipes

• Restrict Target Framework Version

Other Recipes

• Verify path Properties with HasTrailingSlash
• Using TFS Deployer for Staging Builds