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We have about 6 TFS Projects with their own builds that we want to actively monitor. Ideally it should show each of the builds along with their status: succeeded, partially succeeded, failed..

I don't need it to drive a light, rather I want a simple window as either a windows app or a web page. I did come across the Build Monitor on codeplex, but that seems to only drive twitter or some kind of light.

The built in Build Explorer only shows builds for a single TFS project, I need it to cross TFS projects.

Ultimately, this will be shown on a large wall mounted monitor in our Dev area.

Ideas?

NotMe
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  • take a look at http://tfsbuildinspector.codeplex.com I have the same problem. finaly I had to write my own tool. last week I decided to publish the solution via codeplex. I removed the special features of it, however, I think this addin fits your problem. by the way, it may worth the effort. – Shahyad Sharghi Oct 08 '12 at 11:08
  • Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9299267/does-tfs-have-anything-like-cctray-for-build-notifications – CJBS Jan 18 '18 at 17:38

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Team Build Screen Saver seems to be exactly what you are looking for:

http://teambuildscreensaver.codeplex.com/

Vaccano
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Take a look at

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/buildwallboard

for a single project implementation that I did as a code sample for talks I do on programming the Team Build API. Robert Aquila took that sample and then made it do more stuff along with working for multiple projects here

http://raquila.com/software/team-foundation-server-build-notification-screen/

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  • Robert Aquila's app is good. Doesn't have all the functionality of the TFS Power Tools Build Notification but at the moment it is less flakey. – James Gardner Jul 23 '10 at 00:20
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All the client assemblies used by the tools (including Team Explorer) are documented in MSDN.

For the build client assemblies: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/cc339575

For the rest: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/bb130146

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