Chapter 23. Team Foundation Build

IN THIS CHAPTER

• An Overview of Team Foundation Build

• Creating a New Build

• Starting a Build

• Monitoring and Analyzing Builds

The last Visual Studio Team System tool we will cover in this book is Team Foundation Build (TFB). It is distributed as part of the Team Foundation Server and, like the other tools we have discussed, is an integrated part of the overall project experience offered by VSTS.

As projects march through their lifecycle, you reach a point at which it is time to pull together all the various components, compile them, distribute them, and test them. This overall process is known as a build. And as you will see, building software is much more than simply compiling source code into executable ...

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