Team build for solution with projects in other TFS projects?

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WXS - 03 May 2006 14:11 GMT

I am trying to get a team build working for a solution that has one project
in the current TFS project and another project in a different TFS project.

It seems it never checks out the source from the other TFS project thus
fails the build.

How can I get this to work?

Thanks

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Luis Fraile - 03 May 2006 20:01 GMT

Hmm I don't think it can be done directly with a "normal" Team Build, but I
think maybe you can do that, doing a custom task which executes the build of
the other TFS Project and then copy the binaries deployed to the main deploy
directory

But it's just an idea, I think I have to re-think the whole thing, but it's
interesting question

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Luis Fraile
MCSD.NET

> I am trying to get a team build working for a solution that has one project
> in the current TFS project and another project in a different TFS project.
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> Thanks

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WXS - 03 May 2006 21:36 GMT

Then you would have to worry about dependencies and all that, which is why we
have it in one solution.

The problem is due to the nature of TFS if we have 2 projects that we want
as seperate TFS projects and they share common projects, we have to create
another TFS project for common projects, then have the solution in the
specific TFS project include C++ projects for example from common. This
would likely be the way we would need to work with our projects that rely on
common code.

Are there specific entries that can be added to check out the code from the
other projects in that solution. It seems like it should do that by default
since it needs everything in the solution it should do something like the
open from source control and then in theory it would build.

If we can't get it to support this team build likely won't be much use to us
and will elimiate a "feature" from our migration story we are proposing to
management.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks

> Hmm I don't think it can be done directly with a "normal" Team Build, but I
> think maybe you can do that, doing a custom task which executes the build of
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Luis Fraile - 04 May 2006 07:45 GMT

This is really interesting problem and question, I will try to make a proof
of concept, to check I understood it correctly

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Luis Fraile
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> Then you would have to worry about dependencies and all that, which is why we
> have it in one solution.
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WXS - 04 May 2006 15:32 GMT

An example would be:

$\TFSProject1
$\TFSProject1\MainSolution.sln
$\TFSProject1\project1.proj

$\TFSProject2
$\TFSProject2\project2.proj

MainSolution includes project2.proj from TFSProject2.

If I create a team build under TFSProject1 to build MainSolution, project 1
will checkout and build but project 2 will not.

> This is really interesting problem and question, I will try to make a proof
> of concept, to check I understood it correctly
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