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Created Unassigned: TfsAction not accepting more than one item in itemSpec? [11804]

Snusmumriken71 — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:08:39 GMT

I use the standard __FindMatchingFiles__ activity to find files to operate a __TfsAction__ (Checkout, Checkin) on, and since these actions should accept several files for input (just like tf.exe does), I tried simplify my process by making one string of them all with a __String.Join(" ", myIENumerable)__ and use that as input to ItemSpec in TfsAction.

That fails however, since TfsAction appends "" around the itemspec, making tf.exe interpret it as one single file. The warning I receive is:

```
Running C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\tf.exe checkout "file1 file2 file3" /noprompt
TF400889: The following path contains more than the allowed 259 characters: file1 file2 file3. Specify a shorter path.
```

(This particular error is because the file paths are too long, but even if they weren't another error would be produced since they are not one path together).

As of now, the only option I seem to have is to use a __foreach__ and perform the actions individually. It would be great if TfsAction didn't have to add "" automatically.

Created Unassigned: Build Manager: All option for Keep Latest in Retention Policy [11798]

quintessential5 — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:46:32 GMT

I'm using the 2010 version, so maybe this exists in the 2012 version: it would be nice to be able to specify "All" in the Select Retention Policy dialog, instead of limiting input to a numerical value (cf. attachment). I'd like to be able to keep all successful builds. I know I can set this in the build definitions themselves, but it would be nice to do it en masse.

Commented Unassigned: System.InvalidOperationException When Setting Retention Policy on Build Definition with Build Manager (2010) [11796]

quintessential5 — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:36:45 GMT

Repro steps:

1. Open build manager as VS plugin for 2010.
2. In the Show dropdown, choose Build Definitions.
3. Right click a build definition, and choose Set Retention Policies.

Result: the attached exception message.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: quintessential5 **

A restart of VS fixed the issue. Given that this is a bug with the version for VS 2010, it would be understandable to just close this issue. However, it'd be interesting to know if this could be repro'ed somehow for the 2012 version. I'm not sure what the repro steps would be, though.

Created Unassigned: System.InvalidOperationException When Setting Retention Policy on Build Definition with Build Manager (2010) [11796]

quintessential5 — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:23:58 GMT

Commented Issue: Code Metrics only works with VS 2010 [11207]

jmzamudio — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:08:04 GMT

Have you guys tested the Code Metrics Activity in VS 2012? It looks like it is only for the Power Tool for VS 2010, which does not exist on the Rangers VM? I am getting an error when running it that it is looking for VS 2010 assemblies. Any workarounds?

string metricsExePath = Path.Combine(ProgramFilesX86(), @"Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\FxCop\metrics.exe");
if (!File.Exists(metricsExePath))
{
this.LogBuildError("Could not locate " + metricsExePath + ". Please download Visual Studio Code Metrics PowerTool 10.0 at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=edd1dfb0-b9fe-4e90-b6a6-5ed6f6f6e615");
return false;
}
Comments: ** Comment from web user: jmzamudio **

any plans to upgrade this to vs2012?
the new version of the tool is http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38196

Commented Issue: NUnit: file not found Exception [10127]

2ton — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:48:40 GMT

I use the NUnit Task in Version 1.2.0.0. If I set PublishTestResults = True I get this Exception:

Error: The system cannot find the file specified. Stack Trace: at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo) at TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.CodeQuality.NUnit.RunProcess(String fullPath, String workingDirectory, String arguments) in D:\Projects\teambuild2010contrib\CustomActivities\VS2010\MAIN\Source\Activities\CodeQuality\NUnit\NUnit.cs:line 324 at TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.CodeQuality.NUnit.PublishTestResultsToTFS(ActivityContext context, String folder) in D:\Projects\teambuild2010contrib\CustomActivities\VS2010\MAIN\Source\Activities\CodeQuality\NUnit\NUnit.cs:line 370 at TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.BaseCodeActivity.Execute(CodeActivityContext context) in D:\Projects\teambuild2010contrib\CustomActivities\VS2010\MAIN\Source\Common\BaseCodeActivity.cs:line 67.

But the file exists in the correct directory. I can execute the logged command on Command line without exceptions:

Running %VS100COMNTOOLS%\..\IDE\MSTest.exe /publish:"http://tfs.intern.generic.de:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection" /publishresultsfile:"D:\Release\Binaries\NUnitTestresults.trx" /publishbuild:"XXProject_v1.0.15.0_2012.01.09_18.35.00_Release" /teamproject:"XXProject" /platform:"Any CPU" /flavor:"Release"
Comments: ** Comment from web user: 2ton **

You will get the same error if you are kicking off your build from VS2012 AND you do not have VS2012 installed on your build server. I was caught out by this, it tries to run the command "%VS110COMNTOOLS%..\IDE\MSTest.exe /publish:"http://..." instead of "%VS100COMNTOOLS%..\IDE\MSTest.exe /publish:"http://..." which of course doesn't exist if VS2012 is not on your build machine (the build itself will work fine without VS2012 as long as you have .NET4.5 installed).

Created Unassigned: Show Queue Time in TFS Build Manager [11787]

andreaskorn — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:49:17 GMT

It would be nice if the queue time could be displayed in the "Queued" view in the TFS Build Manager.

Edited Feature: TFSBM - Queue High Priority Build [11784]

mikeFourie — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:49:49 GMT

I would like to be able to queue a (bunch of) high priority build(s). Right now TFSBM only kicks off normal priority builds

Created Feature: TFSBM - Queue High Priority Build [11784]

mikeFourie — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:49:49 GMT

I would like to be able to queue a (bunch of) high priority build(s). Right now TFSBM only kicks off normal priority builds

Commented Issue: AssemblyInfo Does Not Accept Values [11429]

Snusmumriken71 — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:37:02 GMT

When I try to use the AssemblyInfo activity, no value seems to satisfy the properties of the activity.

For example, when I set AssemblyCompany to the value «My Company», I get the error "Compiler error(s) encountered processing expression "My Company". End of expression expected. When I set it to the value «"My Company"», then I get the error "Compiler error(s) encountered expression ""My Company"". Invalid L-value expression".

I have attached the build template and a screenshot of the noted errors from Visual Studio.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: Snusmumriken71 **

Is there any work on this ongoing, or is this a new "working as intended" behavior? Because in practice this breaks the usage of AssemblyInfo for us, since we now must extend our process templates quite a lot (create and assign local variable for each AssemblyInfo field to be updated). If this is the intended behavior from now on, we will gain more from creating our own custom activity based on the old version.

Sorry if I'm sounding harsh/disrespectful; I don't mean to complain, and simply would like to know how we should cope with this problem on our side.

Commented Issue: StyleCop spell checking doesn't work with TFS2012 Team Build [11624]

mikeFourie — Sat, 11 May 2013 08:38:54 GMT

Hello,
I am interested in having suggestion from you related the issue with StyleCop analysis. The detailed description of this is described below.
StyleCop 4.7.44 is installed on the dev environment and integrated it into Visual Studio 2012, also a simply console application was created for this purposes. StyleCop works well (and especially important to me that 1650 rule works) from GUI of Visual Studio 2012.
Then I have moved the test application to TFS 2012, installed Community TFS Build Extensions and added StyleCop activity with related changes to build workflow. All StyleCop rules except “SA1650 ElementDocumentationMustBeSpelledCorrectly” as appeared after build process as a warnings but I am not able to see the violation related to the SA1650 rule, however this violation is shown in Visual studio GUI.
All files and folders from StyleCop installation folder were added to the CustomAssemblies folder under TFS as is described in the help documentation for Community TFS Build Extensions but I am still not able to see the violation.
Can you please help with resolving this issue?
Looking forward to your response.
Thanks,
–Ivan
Comments: ** Comment from web user: mikeFourie **

Are you using a custom dictionary? Are you copying it to the stylecop installation folder during your build?

Mike

Closed Issue: Error: Could not load file or assembly 'StyleCop, Version=4.7.1000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f904653c63bc2738' or one of its dependencies. [11656]

mikeFourie — Sat, 11 May 2013 08:35:51 GMT

I'm facing this issue after adding StyleCop activity into build template--

```
2 error(s), 0 warning(s)
Error: Could not load file or assembly 'StyleCop, Version=4.7.1000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f904653c63bc2738' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.. Stack Trace: at TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.CodeQuality.StyleCop.Scan()
at TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.BaseCodeActivity.Execute(CodeActivityContext context).
Exception Message: Could not load file or assembly 'StyleCop, Version=4.7.1000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f904653c63bc2738' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (type FileNotFoundException)
Exception Stack Trace: at TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.CodeQuality.StyleCop.Scan()
at TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.BaseCodeActivity.Execute(CodeActivityContext context)
at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager)
at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation)
```

I've added these dlls in the private assemblies and custom activities folder--
Ionic.Zip.dll
Microsoft.StyleCop.CSharp.dll
Microsoft.StyleCop.CSharp.Rules.dll
Microsoft.StyleCop.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Coverage.Analysis.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Coverage.Interop.dll
TfsBuild.NuGetter.Activities.dll
TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.AWS.dll
TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.dll
TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.IIS7.dll
TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.ILMerge.dll
TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.LabManagement.dll
TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.StyleCop.dll
TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.VirtualPC.dll
TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.VisualStudio.dll
TfsBuildExtensions.TfsUtilities.dll

Can you please help me with this ?

Edited Issue: Change Drop Locations Case Sensitive [11746]

mikeFourie — Sat, 11 May 2013 08:35:29 GMT

The ability to change the drop location of historic builds is useful but it has 2 issues:

1) There is no ability to control the case sensitivity of the comparison.

2) There is no way to search drop locations of existing builds.

The tool was very helpful but I had to write another tool to get a report of builds that still weren't what I needed and then execute multiple change operations until I covered all of the variations.

Created Issue: FTP Activity [11768]

mikeFourie — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:41:05 GMT

Look at porting the MSBuild Extension Pack FTP activity here.

Discussion - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msbuild/thread/07380655-025a-4fed-9935-662499a0f934

Created Issue: Change Drop Locations Case Sensitive [11746]

chrpai — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:58:30 GMT

Commented Issue: add an optional Build Quality Filter for the get last good build activity [11692]

tspascoal — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:28:22 GMT

Add an optional parameter Build Quality to allow fetching the last good build with a given build quality.

If the parameter is not filled it will mantain the current behaviour of getting the last good build
Comments: Associated with changeset 83291: reenabled case insenstive comparison for build tags

Commented Issue: add an optional Build Quality Filter for the get last good build activity [11692]

tspascoal — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:38:50 GMT

Add an optional parameter Build Quality to allow fetching the last good build with a given build quality.

If the parameter is not filled it will mantain the current behaviour of getting the last good build
Comments: Associated with changeset 83276: changed build quality comparison to case sensitive

Closed Issue: add an optional Build Quality Filter for the get last good build activity [11692]

tspascoal — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:34:37 GMT

Add an optional parameter Build Quality to allow fetching the last good build with a given build quality.

If the parameter is not filled it will mantain the current behaviour of getting the last good build
Comments: Resolved with changeset 83238: Added the ability to also get the last good build of a given quality
Also made TFS parameter optional. If not passed the server to which the build agent is connected is used

Edited Issue: add an optional Build Quality Filter for the get last good build activity [11692]

tspascoal — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:32:25 GMT

Created Issue: add an optional Build Quality Filter for the get last good build activity [11692]

tspascoal — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:47:59 GMT