The problem

Today I found I had a problem when trying to associate a Release Management 2013.2 release pipeline with a TFS build. When I tried to select a team project the drop down for the release properties was empty.

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Robert unexpectedly (gotta love him!) gave me a surprise present in the form of a Microsoft Surface Pro 3. I’ve now been using it for a week and I thought it was time to put my thoughts into words.

You’ll pry it out of my cold, dead hands

Overall, this is a fantastic bit of kit and it’s the device I have used most at …

I have just submitted a session for DDDNorth 2014, which is at the University of Leeds on Saturday 18 October.

There is still time for you to submit yours Session submission

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I am currently rebuilding our TFS build infrastructure, we have too many build agents that are just too different, they don’t need to be. So I am looking at a standard set of features on a build agent and the ability to auto provision new instances to make scaling easier. More on this in a future post…

Anyway whilst …

Whilst working on an automated build where I needed to target a specific project I hit a problem. I would normally expect the MSBuild argument to be

/t:MyProject:Build

Where I want to build the project Myproject in my solution and perform the Build target (which is probably the default anyway).

However, my project was …

If you are doing any work with Azure Cloud Applications there is a very good chance you will want your automated build process to produce the .CSPKG deployment file, you might even want it to do the deployment too.

On our TFS build system, it turns out this is not a straight forward as you might hope. The problem is …