Set limit on build time

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    - Programmatically detect branches Is it possible to ask (in code) the TFS what branches exist in a Team Project I can't seem to find a function for this on the most "logical" objects like VersionControlServer. I have found functions to get branches on item level, but how about project level Just a list of all branches. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - VSTestHost.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close closing out... .let us know if you have the issue again. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - SandcastleGUI (v1.21) product update Hi, The SandcastleGUI v1.19 and v1.20 versions supported the ApplyVSDocModel.xls transformation, but it caused some problems on computer having less memory (Microsoft sandcastle allocated al lot of memory causing a lot of page faults). For more information about this issue see: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1146565&SiteID=1 The new version of SandcastleGUI v1.21 implements the suggestion mentioned in the msdn -forum. The documentation performance is improved, but takes an extra initial minute to prepare documentation . The version v1 .21 is now available for download at http://www.inchl.nl Kind regards, Stephan Smetsers stephansmetsers@hotmail.com http://www.inchl.nl Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Automatically delete shelvesets older than n days/weeks/months Done! And for those interested here is the link: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=276177 Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Orcas vsperfcmd on x64 Is vsperfcmd from the latest Orcas CTP (Jan 2007) supposed to work on x64 I can't get it to work. Thanks, Albert Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - without xp pro Trying to install from "control panel>add/remove windows components" in windows xp home after checking IIS and installing a popup box asks for a copy of windows xp pro. Is the a way of installing iis for vb.net without xp pro Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Checked/Unchecked Menu command You can't create a dropdown control with a picture and a "down" arrow, at least from an add-in, only VS can do that. However, you can create a dropdown with text using a CommandBarPopup, like the "Other Utilities" dropdown menu in the toolbar of my MZ-Tools add-in: http://www.mztools.com/extensibility.htm Which code are you using to create the widget Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Auto Inc of Setup Project version and change product code I have a web setup project (MSI), not an assembly. File --> New --> Project --> Other Project Types --> Setup and deploy --> Web Set up Project On the web set up project I set RemovePreviousVersion to true. However, the only way I have gotten the installer to actually remove the previous version is to increment the version number on it and change the product code guid. I was hoping to automate this with team build. I'm not against writing my own Task to do this, but wanted to make sure it was the only route I had to do so. Thanks Wayne Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Browser does not display when starting a vs2003 project Browser does not display when starting a vs2003 project . Is there something I need to enable , all I get is the design window , has anyone seen this before Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Visual Studio with SP1 is really unstable Sorry, here is the error with devenv.exe: Faulting application devenv.exe, version 8.0.50727.762, time stamp 0x45716759, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549bdc9, exception code 0xc0000374, fault offset 0x000af1c9, process id 0x1244, application start time 0x01c7447bdbc60b0b. Faulting application devenv.exe, version 8.0.50727.762, time stamp 0x45716759, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x3e3be30f, process id 0x1468, application start time 0x01c74461464092e6. Faulting application devenv.exe, version 8.0.50727.762, time stamp 0x45716759, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0e5ec758, process id 0x128c, application start time 0x01c743a4f718bbe7. It's posible that error with iexplorer.exe is also from VS. Error occur in designer and code. Somethimes when i click on dock window, Somethimes when working on windows designer, somethimes on DataSet Designer, Report Designer, just no rule. If i have to turn off UAC ok. I use SP1 from the first day it was out, so this problems is not from now, but all the time. I use third party controls and somethimes when work with them in designer it fails, but errors are everywhere, not just on desinger and with no rule. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Using MSTest instead of NUnit I've been using CruiseControl.NET for a while with NUnit for unittesting and NCover for coverage statistics. However, after upgrading to the VS2005 Team Edition, I would like to use the MSTest suite instead, but I haven't been able to modify my MSBuild script to do this. < ncover workingDirectory = " . " program = " ${ncover.path} " commandLineExe = " ${nunit.path} " commandLineArgs = " ${nunit.project.path} /config=${build.config} /xml=${output.dir}\nunit.log " coverageFile = " ${output.dir}\ncover.log " logFile = " ${output.dir}\coverage.log " failonerror = " true " > < assemblies basedir = " . " > < include name = " **/${application.base.namespace}*.dll " /> < exclude name = " **/${application.base.namespace}*Tests.dll " /> </ assemblies > </ ncover > If anyone could help me with a similar section using MSTest instead, it would be appreciated /Michael H Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - How to change/reset the Local Path? New VSTS user. Just setting up client machine. First Get Latest Version prompts for location of local path. However, we screwed up and I don't want it there now. I want to specify a different local path. How do I change the local path please I don't care about the old path. Thanks, Stewart. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Most Efficient Way To Find Out Report is "Empty" I was wondering what the most efficient way to find out if a report is bound to an "empty" set of data is when the report is being driven by a SQL Command The reason I ask is that I show a specific section of the report such as "No Data" when the report is bound to no data. This is trivial if you bind to a dataset because you can check the rowcount of the dataset from within C#. When using SQL Command objects getting this data is a little more tricky, I have created a "dumby" running total whose sole purpose is to count one of the columns of data bound to the report. I then use this in the section supression formula wizards to show or hide various sections. Is there a better way to approachi this problem Cheers Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Merge problem It's there, at the top of the list: Changeset Author Date --------- -------------------------------- ---------- 2198 maynel 07/03/2007 And then I tried my initial command again and got the same error. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Sandcastle/docProject compilation takes long, is it normal? I don't think it's enough to just scan the reflection file for changes. You'd have to scan the XML comments files for changes too and rebuild topics with general comment changes and for comments that reference any new items via tags with a cref attribute, items in which the cref target went away or changed, etc. Given the number of lookups and comparisions to make between the old and new files I'm not sure there'd be much of a gain over just regenerating each topic. MSDN lookups slow that down more than anything I think as I can usually cut the build time by about half just by turning that off. I think you'd have to factor in whether or not changes were made elsewhere that would affect the generated topics (a change in the naming method used, a change to the help title, a different "send comments" e-mail address, a complete change of presentation style, etc). Such changes would require a full rebuild regardless. I see three slow areas: The CopyFromIndex component that loads the Data\Reflection files, the ResolveReferenceLinks2 component that also loads the Data\Refelection files, and the big offender, MSDN lookups in that same component. The data in the framework reflection files is static and I'm pretty sure the MSDN URLs don't change too often if at all so if you could get those to cache the data they load and parse every build, you could certainly speed up the initializing phase plus the lookups. I did create a cached version of the ResolveReferenceLinks component last year and it worked but I had some misgivings about the way I implemented it so pulled it for later consideration. I might have to take another look at it. Regarding NDoc, I think much of the reason for its speed is that it's documenters use one presentation style with little to no room for customization and no localization support. If you look at the build timings for Sandcastle in all the steps excluding help compilation, it's BuildAssembler that consumes the most time. With the flexibility it gives comes a performance penalty. Eric Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - How to test a web page which is build from Microsoft InfoPath ? I need to test a webpage which is build using Microsoft Infopath. I recorded my application and then try to run the application in VSTS. But i found that it do not display anything in the Webbrowser tab of result details. And displays an error message as "To edit the form on this page you need to enable the scripting on your computer". Please help me out in solving this issue.It's bit urgent. Thanks in advance Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - MSBuild "manual" build does not produce the same output as "Build Solution" through the IDE Dan, I couldn't post the log... but it's out there: http://www.sharebig.com/share.php id=s14cfqkejcpcVq4WQ in a zipped format Eric. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Weird problem when building a project Hi, I am trying to build 2 class library projects (I'll call them LibA and LibB) using MSBuild. LibB has a reference to LibA. When I run them through MSBuild using the target code shown below LibA is built without problems but I get the following error when LibB is being built: error BC30002: Type 'LibA' is not defined. The strange thing is that if I build both LibA and LibB from within Visual Studio they both build succcessfully. <Target Name="CoreBuild"> <MSBuild Projects ="@(VBProjectFiles)" ContinueOnError ="false" Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration);ReferencePath=$(ReferencePath)"> </MSBuild> </Target> Any ideas what might be wrong Thanks, dlarkin77 Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Does biztalk need to be installed on build server? We are in the process of setting up a team build for a biztalk application using the Microsoft.Sdc.Tasks on Codeplex (http://www.codeplex.com/sdctasks). What additional configuration needs to be performed on the build server to compile biztalk applications Specificaly - do we need to install SQL Server 2005 or Biztalk server on build machine There is a post on a similiar subject - http://www.codeplex.com/sdctasks however having to install the biztalk on the build machine is unclear. Thanks in advance! ___________________________________ Sarah Cameron - Incycle Software Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - crystal report problem Steps : 1) Open crystal report 2) Insert 'Running - Total field' 3)Right click on Running-Total field and create new running field. 4)Now a menu. In that menu Summary,Evaluate and RESET options are there. Summay option is used for generate running serial number based on the record or group.(Select any field and add infield to summary & select type of summary. Type of summary is used to count,sum ..etc) EVALUATE is used to display the running sl.no based on the record or partifular group. RESET is used resetting the running sl. no as one. Hope it will use for you Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Consuming a webservice what are the steps to consume data from a web service in the report viewer control I am assuming that we need to configure an object datasource for this. but i am not getting any documentation on this. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Threading I am developing Vs Package, I need to execute some code in thread, and while executing it, I need to write some info in Outputwindw I) How to create thread in Pckage , and catch exceptions in thread, should I use for this purpose Sysem .Threading 2) How to activate IVsOutputWindowPane to which I am going to write text. I use Activate() method but nothing happens and IVsOutputWindowPane is not shown Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - ReportViewer printing on Citrix I saw a previous thread that touched on this topic but there didn't seem to be a resolution. Here's the deal: Two of my remote locations cannot print from ReportViewer (winform, local processing mode) through Citrix. We have the Citrix server and printer server here in our main location, and if I run through Citrix here locally and try to print, it works about half the time. When it does not print, the reportviewer control acts like it is spooling to the printer, but I never see the job show up in the printer's queue. We have a T1 link to our remote locations, but some of these print jobs are close to 2 mb and I was curious if this might have anything to do with it. The workaround has been to export to PDF and print the PDF (which is an astronomically smaller print job.) What are the right questions to ask my Citrix and network admins They absolutely deny it as a Citrix issue and have been difficult to work with. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Debugger hangs application in Invoke A better work around is that you can turn off the entire feature by adding this to your configuration file. This can be placed in machine.config (to disable for everything) or just app.config/web.config. <configuration> <system.diagnostics> <switches> <add name="Remote.Disable" value="1" /> </switches> </system.diagnostics> </configuration> Thanks, Gregg Miskelly Visual Studio Debugger Dev Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - How do u use the Exec task's Output parameter? I agree with your read of the the output parameters description. I didn't see the value in this feature either, and was hoping that I read it wrong, or there was some more capability there. Wishful thing I guess. I am already storing values in a separate file. It's not pretty, you're right. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Tell me what kind of Custom Rule you want to write!!! Hi, I am also looking to implement custom rules using the FxCop introspection engine. I did find quite a few examples. But they are so cryptic and I just cannot find any documentation which explains the API in detail. I am leaning towards thinking that maybe I should have use reflection to parse through the code. I have managed to create a lot of rules, but without really understanding what I am doing. I have tweaked code here and there to make it work. But I am looking for some documentation which I can read and be able to write code on my own rather than copying /pasting from MSDN resources. eg. I just want to find out if the developer is using pre-defined keywords in his code. Session object for example. I just cannot find a way to do this without Reflection -Thanks Nishant Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Work Item Tracking and States Just a small tweak. You only only had to define the new states and the possible transitions. Nothing major. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Does WIT customization support this feature? I want to implement such a field: If left the filed empty, all valid team project users can access the work item (Visible). If i filled the filed with a user our group alias in valid team project users group, the work item will only visible to this kind of users. Supported by customization or work item tracking system In other word, whether I can set access permissions against a single work item or the work items under specific area or iteration Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Filter by in stock? More information, please. <s> * -- does an error occur, or do you just not get the results you're looking for * -- what do the values "1" and "2" mean (which is "in stock" and which is "out of stock") >L< Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - How to get alerts? Here is another aspect of the issue: Situation: Team Foundation setup and running. 3 Team members subscribed to the WorkItemChanged event. All three get emails no problem. Added a 4th person to the team project. They configured a subscription to the WorkItemChanged event. But never got emails. I set the eSwitch to 3, made a change to a work item assigned to the new user, then Looked in the bislog.txt file. No Subscription Matched" or "Sending Notification" entires in the log. Tested making a change to one of the other users, and these events generated successfully. So I dug around in the DB tables and noticed that the subscriber name was listed as DOMAIN\PeterW. All of the other users had their user name in all lowercase letters. Checking Active Directory, the new user's username is listed (on the accounts tab) as being peterw. But when he loggs into his workstation he uses mixed case and loggs in as PeterW. So had him log in as PeterW, go into VS 2005 and remove his alert subscription. Then had him logoff and on again, this time using all lowercase peterw. He added the alert subscriptions back in VS 2005 again and immediatly was able to get alerts. Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Synchronize solution explorer with source control explorer If someone (even me) checks in a file from the source control explorer - the solution explorer still displays that it is checked out. How do I synchronize the solution explorer window to reflect the updated situation Yoni Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio
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    - Vista: Unable to start debugging on the web server. IIS does not list an application that matches the launched URL. Hi, I have the same problem. Vista Premiun does not have windows authentication and I have premiun edition. But Visual Studio can work with premiun ed. and can debug on root. So, why cannot debug into the internal application folder TIA Tag: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time Visual Studio

gerbenvl

Can I limit the time a team build is running in some way Sometimes people write tests that take too much time on the build server, so I'd like to limit these kind of builds to let's say 1 hour. It should just kill the build when it isn't finished in that timespan.

Any ideas

Thanks,

Gerben.

Re: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time

Aaron Hallberg - MSFT

You could write a custom task that spawns a process which, after a set amount of time, calls the BuildController.StopBuild method. I am reasonably sure that this should work, and that it shouldn't cause any problems when the build doesn't take that long (the spawned process should get cleaned up with the rest of the build's resources).

See my blog post here for an example of a custom task that calls a Team Build web service. Also note that you'll want to get this task started early on in the build process - I would recommend overriding the BeforeEndToEndIteration target.

-Aaron

Re: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time

gerbenvl

Thanks for your quick reply Aaron, I'm going to give it a try.

Gerben.

Re: Team Foundation Server - Build Automation Set limit on build time

gerbenvl

Another way to solve this is to specify a maximum run time for the unit tets in the testrunconfig.

Gerben.