Team Build is a build server application included with Team Foundation Server, which is installed alongside Visual Studio. Developers use Team Build to perform complete builds of the most recent versions of software contained in source control. Records of every build, whether it succeeds or fails, are kept so that developers and build administrators can keep track of the progress of the project. If a build succeeds, it analyzes what changes have been made in source control since the last successful build and updates any work items to indicate that progress has been made. For example, if a tester filed a bug work-item against build #15, and a developer checked in a change just prior to build #18 being created, then the bug work-item would be updated to state that the bug has been fixed. A tester can then confirm or deny that the bug has been resolved.
Currently there are two versions of TeamBuild, each version matched to a TFS installation version. It is also highly customizable.
TFSBuild.proj is the file which drives a TeamBuild in TFS 2005. This Team Build Language is synonymous with the MSBuild language. In TFS 2010 and TFS 2012, the MSBuild driven system has been replaced with Build Templates authored in Windows Workflow
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