tfs2008 whats new

8/14/2019 TFS2008 Whats New

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Agenda

What is Team System & Team Foundation Server

What are the new features?

Overview of Team Build

TFS 2008 Build Automation in Detail Q&A


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Visual Studio Team System


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Team System at a Glance

Visual Studio Team Suite

MSF

ProcessandGuidance

Team Foundation Server

VisualStudio

IndustryPartners

ArchitectureEdition

DevelopmentEdition

TestEdition

Modeling Code Analysis

Code Metrics

Profiling

DatabaseDeployment

Change MgmtDB Testing

Load & ManualTesting

Version Control

Work Item Tracking

Reporting and BI

Team Portal

Team Build

DatabaseEdition

Code Coverage

Visual Studio Professional Edition

Test Load Agent


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Team Foundation ServerVersion Control

Work Item Tracking

Reporting and BI

Team Portal

Team Build


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Version ControlWork Item Tracking

Reporting and BITeam Portal

Team Build


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Dev Team (Local)Dev Team (Remote)

Business User

Build Agent

Version ControlProxy (Remote)Active Directory

TCP/IP

HTTP / S

Windows 2003 Server

SQL Server 2005

IIS 6.0



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Whats New Version Control

Performance Improvements

Scale Improvements

Offline Improved

Workspace mapping improvements Annotate

Folder Diff

Destory

Get Latest on Checkout


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Check out != Get Latest

1

1

Get Latest

2 3

Edit Pendingon Version 1

AttemptedCheck in

Check in

4

Get Latest


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Get Latest on Check out

1

1

Get Latest

2 3

Pend Edit

3

Get LatestCheck in

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Whats New Admin & Ops

Much easier installer

Upgrade from TFS 2005

Share Point 2007 Support

Support for Reporting Server off DT Support for SQL Named Instances

Support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008


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Whats New - Other

Team System Web Access

Migration Toolkit

Performance and Scale improvements

Many UI improvements


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Whats New - Build

Continuous Integration out of the box

Scheduled Builds out of the box

Better UI around build creation

Stop and Delete builds in UI Multi-threaded builds

Incremental builds and gets

More flexible build definition storage

Easier unit test integration

Improved Build Agent communication

.NET Object Model


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Compatibility 2005 / 2008

TFS 2005

TFS 2008

VSTS 2005

VSTS 2008


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Martin Woodward

Senior Software Engineer

Teamprise

Automating your builds with TeamFoundation Server 2008


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Build Automation is

Collecting

Assembling

Validating

Auditing


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Build automation helps youanswer the tough questions

Do our bits create a product?

Are we on schedule?

Is our product high quality?

Build automations value is in making it trivial to take

the pulse of your team


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Team Build 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build isthe official name of the feature

Core feature of TFSyou dont buy it on its own

Industrial strength build automation in Team System Provides the F5 experience for your team


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DemoUsing Build in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008


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Build Execution

Build Initiatedfrom TFS

Prepare buildagent and create

build numberSync Sources

Compile andAnalyze

Execute TestsUpdate Work

ItemsCalculate Code

CoverageCalculate Code

Churn

Produce BuildReport

Copy to DropPublish Results

to TFSNotify EventSubscribers

BuildDefinition \ TFSBuild.proj


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Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration is a software development practicewhere members of a team integrate their work frequently,usually each person integrates at least daily leading tomultiple integrations per day.

Martin Fowler


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Power Tool to be released after RTM

How CI Works in 2008

submits

processes

raises

handles

queries

queues

receives

servicesstarts

raises

handles

polls

notifies

Build Service

Version ControlService

Build Agent

NotificationApplication

Check-in Event

Build CompletionEvent

Build Build Queue

Build Definitions

Changeset

Database

Developer


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Run Flexibility

Ability to kick off a build on demand via Visual Studio UIor from the command line

New Continuous Integration support and GUImanagement of builds

Support for scheduled builds

Managed API also exposed for rich control


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Multiple Remote Build Machines

Team Build is designed to support multiple buildmachines (build agents)

Chosen via UI or command-line when build isrequested

TFS 2008 supports easily adding new build agentswithout creating new builds

Can even have multiple build agents running on onemachine


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Build Management

Manual process in TFS 2005

Command-line deletion of builds

Manual management of drops

Team Build 2008 provides GUI features to manage

builds and artifacts

Team Build 2008 supports retention policy for buildsand automatic clean up


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Build Notifications

Using the project alerts feature, anyone can subscribeto build notification events

Two events supported out of the box

E-mail notification generated

Build status changes

Build completes

Build Notification Power Tool shipping post release(beta versions available)


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Team Build Architecture

Team Build uses MSBuild engine

Consists of

MSBuild tasks for Team System components (testing, codechurn, update work items etc.)

MSBuild project file (.proj), created via GUI, that defines buildoptions.


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Team Build Architecture

Team FoundationServer

Build Agent

msbuild.exe

BuildDefinition\TFSBuild.proj

msbuildm.exe

SolutionA.sln

msbuild.exe

SolutionB.sln

Calls

Compiles

Runs


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Customizing the Build

Core build defined in TfsBuild.proj

Check-out for edit and modify

Targets group tasks together in a particular order

Allow sections of the build process to be called from thecommand line

Targets contain tasks

Tasks

Tasks are defined operations that live in a managed assembly

They provide the code that runs during the build process

You can write your own

Implement ITask

Derive from helper class Task


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Customizing the Build

Properties pre-defined to control build

Targets in Build designed to be overriden

IncrementalGet StopOnFirstFailure

IncrementalBuild CleanCompilationOutputOnly

SkipWorkItemCreation UpdateAssociatedWorkItemsOnBuildBreak

SkipLabel SkipGetChangesetsUpdateWorkItems

BeforeOnBuildBreak BuildNumberOverideTarget

BeforeCompile BeforeEndToEndIteration

BeforeTest AfterEndToEndIteration

PackageBinaries Before/After everything!


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Desktop Builds

Build scripts work on desktops also

Can install build server locally for UI support andpublication

Can use command-line for private, personal builds


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DemoCustomizing the Build Process


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Team Build Managed Code API

Interface

Interface

Properties

BuildServer

ConfigurationFolderPath

DefaultDropLocation

Description

Enabled

RetentionPolicies

Workspace

Methods

Interface

Properties

BuildDirectory

MachineName

Port

QueueCount

Status

Methods

string

Interface

Properties

DaysToBuild

StartTime

Class

Interface

PropertiesBuildAgent

BuildNumber

CommandLineArguments

CompilationStatus

ConfigurationFolderPath

DropLocation

FinishTime

Information

KeepForever

LogLocation

Quality

RequestedByRequestedFor

SourceGetVersion

StartTime

Status

TestStatus

Uri

Methods

Events

Interface

Properties

BuildServer

CommandLineArguments

CustomGetVersion

DropLocation

GetOption

Id

PriorityQueuePosition

QueueTime

RequestedBy

RequestedFor

Status

Methods

Enum

Individual

Batch

Schedule

ScheduleForced

DefaultBuildAgent

Schedules

BuildServer

BuildAgents

BuildDefinitions

BuildDefinition

Build

BuildAgent

BuildDefinition

ContinuousIntegrationType

TeamFoundationServer

IBuildDefinition

TeamProject

IQueuedBuildIBuildAgent

IBuildDetail

IBuildServer

TeamFoundationServer

ContinuousIntegrationType

ISchedule


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Summary

Team Build allows for consistent and repeatable builds

MS Build engine support provides for limitlessextensibility

Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server version ofTeam Build provides dramatic improvement


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Q&A

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