Introducing Team Foundation Server and Team Build

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced many new topics, the most important being Team Build.Team Build is flexible because it is built on top of MSBuild. Also, you can reuse your knowledge of MSBuild to fine-tune your team build process. Covering the new topics that were addressed here in great detail is outside the scope of this chapter, but it certainly has given you a starting point to creating a solid public build on which your team can rely.

If you are working on enterprise applications, then it is essential that scheduled, automated builds are part of your process. By using TFS and Team Build, you are able to do this simply and easily. Not only is it easy to create an automated public build process, but it also integrates with the other components available in Visual Studio. You no longer have to rely on hooking up many different third-party tools to achieve this.