Category: TFS

MSBuild and 7Zip SFX

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The following allows you to package up your build output into a SFX file with custom properties that appear when someone right clicks the SFX and chooses properties.

Useful if you need to create a zip that can be signed but want your company/product information to appear on the SFX.EXE.

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TFS queue build from powershell

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I was doing some testing on TFS and got fed up queuing new builds via right-click -> queue new build -> ok. So here is a powershell script that can be used to kick off a build.

I’ve included some extra assemblies that don’t need to be used as I have other functions that do use them in the same module file. example useage below

Queue-TFSBuild -TFSServer http://tfsserver:8080/tfs/col -Project Project1 -Definition DailyBuild

$arrAssemblies = @(
    "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client",
    "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common",
    "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client",
    "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow",
    "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client"
)
Foreach ($assembly in $arrAssemblies) {
    [void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName($assembly)
}	
Remove-Variable assembly, arrAssemblies


Function Queue-TFSBuild {
    [CmdLetBinding()]
    Param (
        [Uri]$TFSServer,
        [String]$Project,
        [String]$Definition
    )

    Process {
        [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TfsTeamProjectCollection]$tfsc = [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TfsTeamProjectCollectionFactory]::GetTeamProjectCollection($TFSServer)
        $IBS = [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.IBuildServer]

        [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.IBuildServer] $buildserver = $tfsc.GetService($IBS)
        [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.IBuildDefinition] $BuildDef = $buildserver.GetBuildDefinition($Project,$Definition)
        [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.IBuildRequest] $BuildReq = $BuildDef.CreateBuildRequest();
        $buildserver.QueueBuild($BuildReq)
    }
}

Get Numeric Values from an Enum in powershell

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I needed to get the values for a enum in order to generate the correct flags for a function call here’s how to do it.

[Enum]::GetValues() will return a list of all the values

::.value__ will return the numeric value enum

[Enum]::GetValues([Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.BuildStatus]) | foreach {
$Name = $_
$Value = ([Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.BuildStatus]::$_).value__
Write-Output "$Name = $Value"
}

TFS Warehouse Cube Status via SOAP and Powershell

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Well I’ve just been put in charge of managing our TFS infrastructure so here is the first of hopefully many posts around automating and managing TFS.

The attached script runs a SOAP query against the TFS Warehouse Cube and returns the jobs and their status and then either generates an HTML file or sends an HTML email with the results.

I recommend creating a directory called Scripts on the C:\ drive and setting the permissions so that only the System Administrator & User the script runs as can access the contents of the directory.

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