Friday, February 10, 2012

Add External exe to Setup and Deployment project (VS 2008)

Here are the steps. 

Step 1: Select the Application Folder and add File

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Step 2: Choose the file

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Step 3:  The external exe is being added successfully. The only caveat to this is, if the exe is not in TFS (Source control), when other team members trying to open this project. It will fail to load. So the external exe needs to be provisioned on some shared location (if this is not in TFS)

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

How to use new/custom build template in the Build Definition

Step 1: Add/check-in the custom/new build template into TFS under “BuildProcessTemplates” folder on the Team Project.

Step 2: Create New build definition or Edit the existing build definition

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Step 3: Click on the Process node and expend the “Build Process Template”

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Step 4: Click the new button

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Step 5: Select the Custom/New Build template

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Now the new build template would be available for this Team Project