A new Rangers project has just begun, the output of which will be a Team Build Customization Guide. I’m very happy to be the lead for the Custom Activity guidance and reviewer for the Hands On Lab, though hopefully I’ll get a chance to review the other areas too.
We’re currently busy identifying and prioritizing the product back log. If you can think of anything specific with regards to Custom Activity guidance which you would like addressed, please drop be a line ASAP.
Mike
Mike Fourie 
Correct handling of custom activities. I have a custom Activity in a project and it uses other dll’s in several layer, like:
My Custom Activity
ref to a.dll
a.proj
ref to b.dll
ref to c.dll
c.pro
ref to d.dll
First level is solved (a.dll) but after that i get Could not load file or assembly b, Version……..
all dll’s are added to “version controll path to custom assemblies” in build controller.
More guidance on deployment, especially, customization and build once – deploy to many environments.
Thanks
Thanks for your feedback. We don’t currently have deployment in scope. I’ll speak with the team.
Mike
I’d like to help if I can! I can’t find any documentation on the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.Activitites namespace. Some of the activities that come with TFS build sound nice, but it’s hard to know what they do without experimentation.
Thanks!