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New Post: TF30063: You are not authorized to access error when using TFSSource when checking out a file

waelhamze — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:09:45 GMT

I am having the same issue. Any thoughts on how to get this working using the activity?

New Post: AssemblyInformationalVersion and TfsVersion activity

ludwighoff — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:35:35 GMT

Thanks Mike

I'm a bit lost with the unit tests. When I get my head around it, I'll submit it.

Thanks again

Neil

New Post: installing tfsbuildextensions to GAC

jmzamudio — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:07:12 GMT

I guess you never heard of SMS, SCOM or LanDesk.

You don't have to log on to a machine to install on the GAC, you just generate an MSI and deploy it to any machines you want.

New Post: AssemblyInformationalVersion and TfsVersion activity

mikeFourie — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:50:24 GMT

Ah, I was looking in the wrong place. The activity doesn't support it at the moment. Feel free to submit a patch thanks Neil.

Mike

New Post: Please sign the assemblies

RobertN — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:03:18 GMT

I've seen other posts about signing the extension assemblies but I’m posting a new thread to elaborate on the reasons and to give a bump to the request. Note that this post is related to using the extensions on a dev system for configuring a build template but it seems it would benefit deployment on a build server as well.

Primarily, the assemblies could be deployed to the GAC if they were signed. There are a few good reasons for doing this on a dev system:

Visual Studio toolbox references could be configured to reference the assemblies from the GAC instead of as “loose” files. The recommended practice of adding these to the toolbox from the “container project” is a bad practice because toolbox references are system-wide. That is, they are not solution or project specific. Visual Studio toolbox references to files in a specific project are therefore inappropriate. But it is also fragile because the referenced project may get changed in ways that would orphan or break the Visual Studio reference and that would affect build template configuration in all other solutions.
Build template XAML references to extension activities would not have to be resolved to the container project’s assemblies. If the extension assemblies were in the GAC (and the activity was creating by a toolbox item that referenced a GAC assembly) the XAML references would be set up with a strong name reference and they would resolve to the assemblies in the GAC. The benefit to this is the container project would be unnecessary. The build template could then be added to the solution as a solution file instead of a project file.
To reiterate, the container project becomes unnecessary if the extension assemblies are in the GAC. Having that container project in a solution simply to help resolve XAML references is undesirable.

It would be nice to have an automated deployment process for these but that isn’t necessary. It’s easy enough to add assemblies to the GAC via gacutil. It would be ideal, for the time being, to just have them signed.

Regardless, thanks to the contributors and coordinators of this project. Your time is appreciated!

New Post: AssemblyInformationalVersion and TfsVersion activity

ludwighoff — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:44:15 GMT

Hi Mike,

the wrong place I have no doubt. :-) (I'm new to build xaml).

I am looking at TfsVersion.cs (https://tfsbuildextensions.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#1606003)

and I can't see the public InOutArgument<string> AssemblyInformationalVersion you mention...

What I see in the VS xaml UI seems to correspond to:

public bool SetAssemblyFileVersion
public bool SetAssemblyVersion

public InOutArgument<string> Version

which I can see.

So, what I think I am after is:

public bool SetAssemblyInformationalVersion

Best regards

Neil

New Post: AssemblyInformationalVersion and TfsVersion activity

mikeFourie — Tue, 14 May 2013 06:58:26 GMT

Hey Neil

Where are you looking? I see it in the code

    public InOutArgument<string> AssemblyInformationalVersion { get; set; }

Mike

New Post: AssemblyInformationalVersion and TfsVersion activity

ludwighoff — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:22:38 GMT

Hi Chaps

I can see options for FileVersion and Version, but not one for InformationalVersion. Do I need to patch this?

Cheers and best

Neil

New Post: Publish website

cjp — Thu, 09 May 2013 08:06:44 GMT

Tried using RoboCopy but always get:
Exception Message: Return Code 16. Serious error. RoboCopy did not copy any files. This is either a usage error or an error due to insufficient access privileges on the source or destination directories. (type FailingBuildException)

Tried the standard CopyDirectory and that works but doesn't fail the build if it has problems copying the files which is what I require

New Post: Publish website

cjp — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:23:25 GMT

OK. Figured out that it is already doing this to the folder bin_PublishedWebsites_SolutionName_

All I need to do now is figure out how to copy these files to a drop folder

New Post: Publish website

cjp — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:48:17 GMT

I am trying to set-up a build process template that will build our ASP.NET / MVC web application and then perform a “Publish Web” to file system. I want to be able to specify where the website will be published, this will then be copied to the web server manually by QA
Does anyone have a template based on the build extensions that will do this?

Thanks in advance

New Post: installing tfsbuildextensions to GAC

Jorrit — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:46:23 GMT

I'd like to have strong names to be able to easily add these activities to the toolbox. It is how I use TFS Versioning (also on CodePlex), and it works great.

New Post: Character not valid Assemblyinfo

FriedlTh — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:31:41 GMT

WORKAROUND (Invalid L-value expression error):

Define a string variable myVar
Use an "Assign" activity (tab "Primitives") to assign the token string to myVar
Use myVar instead of the string when configuring the AssemblyInfo activity

New Post: BuildReport & CompareLabels - Getting started

dumian — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:27:33 GMT

Can Someone create or post some HowTo's with details for the Both Actvities,
for example where should be the xslt template for the build report ?,
or how can an be build an report with changes between 2 release builds, when are in multiple branches ?

Regards,
johannes

New Post: Azure Service Management Reference

mikeFourie — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:02:20 GMT

I think we try stick to shipping just our bits and avoid any potential redistribution right pitfalls.

Mike

New Post: Azure Service Management Reference

mikef777 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:32:44 GMT

Any reason this dll isn't included with the downloadable binaries?

New Post: TFSSource and ItemspecList property

KinslayeR — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:48:59 GMT

I want to create AssmblyInfo auto update sequence in my build.
For this purposes I want to find all AssemblyInfo files in some TargetFolder directory, checkout all this files, update version and check-in theme back.
AssemblyInfo activity supports string array as input parameter, but TFSSource activity doesn't.
As I can see from TFSSource.cs file, you have an ItemspecList property, but it hidden.

Are you going to activate it in the next release?

New Post: IIS7 - CreateInstance

debonairdc — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:37:31 GMT

I am getting this error, does any one know the solution? I am trying to stop IIS and am using the local Administrator account.

I am using TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.IIS7 which uses Microsoft.Web.Administration.

Exception Message: Error: Retrieving the COM class factory for remote component with CLSID {2B72133B-3F5B-4602-8952-803546CE3344} from machine [SERVER_NAME] failed due to the following error: 80070005 [SERVER_NAME].. Stack Trace: at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)

New Post: StyleCop does not encounter errors during TFS Build

SchneiderM — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:17:50 GMT

Hi,
I am having a problem in my TFS Build. I've integrated the StyleCop Build Extension on a TFS Server 2012 and initially it worked great but after a while StyleCop stopped checking files.

I've downloaded the StyleCop activity and added some custom logs, but all seemed to be fine.
Only the call to the AddSourceCode Methode returned False.

var result = console.Core.Environment.AddSourceCode(project, inputSourceLocation, null);

Is this behavior OK?
Are there any issues with a large amount of files? We have currently more then 2000 file to check.

The call of the StyleCopConsole.Start() returned true and everything seemed to be OK.
Any suggestions to solve my problem?

Thx
Markus

New Post: Auto refresh in the stand alone application

MagnusT — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:45:21 GMT

Hi Jacob and Mike,

It worked, thanks!

/Magnus