If you can’t wait for Team Build 2008…

24 July, 2007. It was a Tuesday.

This post was originally published here.

I just heard of a new project on CodePlex, TfsBuildLab. It looks like it performs a lot of the build features Orcas will provide, and it lets you do it with Team Build 2005:

Continuous integration builds
Scheduled builds
Build queuing
Build cleanup/retention policies
Event notifications

The TfsBuildLab project is broken into 4 separate components:

Database
Houses the scheduling and queuing data
Service
Queues builds
Executes manual builds
Executes scheduled builds
Admin client
Configures build schedules, etc.
Notification client
Notifies clients of build status, similar to CCTray

Builds are still executed by Team Build, but TfsBuildLab puts a layer on top of Team Build to provide the extra functionality. This looks like a nice interim solution until Team Build 2008 releases early next year.

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