A colleague (Pål Bendiksen) recently asked if there was an MSBuild task available to checkin pending changes in a Team Foundation Server workspace and get the check-in id. Looking at the MSBuild Extension Pack I saw no solution. Another solution…
Mike Fourie
Visual Studio ALM MVP of the Year 2012, 13. Distinguished ALM Ranger (Champion of Champions 2011, 12, 13)
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Leveraging MSBuild’s BuildInParallel (with caution)
UPDATE: 12 April 2011 – added /nodeReuse info. A few months ago I wrote a blog post on Running Targets in Parallel in MSBuild. This presented a simple sample which illustrated how to run a target in parallel over some…
Community TFS Build Extensions – Alpha 1.0.0.0
We’ve just pushed out the first alpha release of this project. This release contains signed assemblies and a CHM file. Effort is now going into improving the documentation. Note the help on the Guid activity, we plan to provide Actions…
Running Targets in Parallel in MSBuild
UPDATE: 07 March 2012 – a task to run targets in parallel is now provided in the MSBuild Extension Pack. See ‘Executing MSBuild Targets in Parallel‘ MSBuild doesn’t support running targets in parallel, but rather supports running projects in parallel.…
MSBuild Hands-On
The MSBuild Hands-On Lab is now updated for .Net 4.0 and available again. It’s hosted on MSDN Code Gallery – http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/msbuildho Several movies will be added soon with additional content to follow. Be sure to leave feedback on the site…
Various Gems
Whilst moving my blog I reminded myself about some great resources: Tips, Tricks, and Advice from the SQL Server Query Processing Team Stefan Delmarco’s SQL series WMI Code Creator LinqPad Programming Guide for 64-bit Windows
Posted in Programming
LINQPad
If you are looking at Getting Started with LINQ, you may want to download LINQPad “LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5: LINQ to SQL LINQ to Objects LINQ to XML LINQPad is also a great way to…
Regular Expression Scratchpad 2.1
A minor update… New in V2.1 Match button to perform a regular expression match, rather than a replacement Minor UI usability updates Version 2.1 is available to download now…
Posted in Programming, Software
Programming Guide for 64-bit Windows
If you are about to start running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows, take a read of this guide: Programming Guide for 64-bit Windows Hopefully that will spare you the initial confusion regarding the File System and Registry Redirectors! …
MSBuild task to build VB6
UPDATE: 01 Feb 2010 — This task is now available in the MSBuild Extension Pack This is not something I thought I would write, but it seems that there are still many out there who have VB6 in their code…
