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Automated Builds using the Team Foundation Server / Visual Studio Team Services build system

Questions related to TFS builds, either in on-premise TFS or in Visual Studio Team Services. This includes task-based builds in TFS 2015/Visual Studio Team Services, TFS 2010-2015 and VSTS builds based on Windows Workflow build process templates, and MSBuild-based builds in from early on-premise versions of Team Foundation Server.

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VSTS 2010 SGEN : error : Could not load file or assembly (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)

I am experiencing a strange issue with VS2010. We use TFS to build our API dlls and we used to reference them in our projects usign a mapped network drive that was fully trusted. We have been working like that for at least two years and everything…
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What does ***NO_CI*** stand for?

A gated check-in will create a change-set whose name is ended with ***NO_CI***? What is that NO_CI stand for? I can just think of "no check in errors" but it doesn't make sense.
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Environment Variable for AppData\Local / Access Downloaded custom assemblies

I am trying to setup my TFS2010 Build and I want to access the files that are downloaded via the "Version control path to custom assemblies". From what I can tell those files are downloaded to: C:\User\\AppData\Local\BuildAgent\
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 AfterBuilding Views fails on TFS Build

I've upgraded from ASP.NET MVC Beta to 1.0 and did the following changes to the MVC project (as descibed in the RC release notes): ... true ...
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Team Foundation Build or TeamCity?

We are a mostly MS shop at work doing .NET LOB development. We also use MS Dynamics for our CRM app... all the devs are currently using VS/SQL Server 2008. We also use VSS, but everyone hates it at work and that is quickly on its way out. We are…
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TFS Build Test Results

We're working on Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010. We have our own BuildTemplate that is a copy of default template, but with some additions like (create Directory...), but the main point, that all that is in DefaultTemplate - is left. We have witten…
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Free Online Team Foundation Server

Can anybody recommend a good free online Team Foundation Server repository? I found CodePlex but it's only for open source projects.
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TFS Build server - CSC : fatal error CS2008: No inputs specified

We get the above error message on our build server, when we build the solution or the specific project that the error refers to. We can build the solution without any problem using visual studio (also on the build server), however it fails with the…
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What is `build agent folder` $(SourceDir) of a build definition in TFS Build 2012?

When creating a build definition for a TFS build, there is a section called Source Settings as below snapshoot where we have to define 1) Source Control Folder and 2) Build Agent Folder. As I understand, the source control folder is where to get the…
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Could not get dependencies for project reference

I have a C# solution with a website project and a C# library. When compiling the solution, the website gives the message: Could not get dependencies for project reference 'MyLibrary'. This does not stop the wbsite compiling and running until I try…
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TFS 2013 building .NET 4.6 / C# 6.0

We use TFS 2013 to as our build server. I've started a C# 6.0 project and I am trying to get it to build. I am using the new null-conditional operators, and my build chokes. I've tried installing several things on the TFS server, including the…
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No build notifications with VS 2015?

We used to set up our dev machines to receive build notifications in the task bar. However, the process we've followed - as per this description - doesn't apply any more with Visual Studio 2015 as the Build Notification app is no longer part of the…
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What are the cool and interesting things that you do during build-automation?

I am just curious to see what others are doing during build-automation other than usual compile, build, run-tests, etc tasks that might be helpful and inspirational for others to consider and look into such as: Generating code documentation Using…
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How do I deploy using MSDeploy in Team Build 2010 using the WMSVC service and NTLM authentication?

I am trying to deploy using Team Build 2010 to a Windows Server 2008 R2 web server. My build server agent is setup to run under a Windows domain account. I have successfully given this domain account permissions on my web server for the deployment…
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TFS Build not transforming web.config as expected

The goal is to have TFS build and deploy 2+ different configurations, and have the web.config transform files include the intended content in their output. This in an ASP.NET MVC project. Web.Debug.Config - see on PasteBin. Web.Release.Config - see…
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