TFS Build Lab 1.0 Released

TFSBuildLab 1.0 is released on CodePlex, it is a project to simplify the day to day operations when using automated builds on TFS.

This project handles common Team System issues such as:

• Continuous integration builds
• Scheduled builds
• Build queueing
• Event notifications
• Manual and automated build cleanup

Below is a list of 1.0 features

Service

• Automatic rescheduling when adding new scheduled trigger.
• A report for displaying statistics from the triggers and retention policies.
• Support for overriding build script parameters both for CI and queued builds.
• Support for only deleting the build drops.
• Support for configuring retention policies based on build quality.
• Performance improvements by introducing caching

Admin Client

• Added feedback when delteing multiple builds.
• Support for forcing recaching on the server.
• Support for overriding build script parameters on queued builds.
• Support for overriding build script parameters on triggers.
• Added range paramters when listing log entries to limit the result data.

Checkin Policies

• Removed the need for TfsBuildLab when using the restricted paths policy.

Build Task

• New custom build task to use overloaded parameters (LoadOverriddenProperty)

Many of these issues are handled in the upcoming TFS release, but they wanted to have a good implementation until then and was also aiming to be as forward-compatible as possible.