Team Foundation Build Recipes

Deploy MSIs from TFS Build

Modified: 2008/05/08 10:25 by admin - Categorized as: Team Build Recipes
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Description

This build recipe allows you to deploy MSIs from your TFS builds with Team Deploy. This is useful when you want to automatically deploy a nightly build into a test environment.

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Usage

  • Download the Team Deploy tasks from www.CodePlex.com/TeamDeploy
  • Add to TFSBuild.proj as an override of the AfterEndToEndIteration target
  • See CodePlex project for detailed Guidance and Installation instructions.

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Script

 
  <Target Name="AfterEndToEndIteration">
    <CallTarget Condition="'$(IsDesktopBuild)'!='true'" Targets="DeployMSITargetVirtuals" />
  </Target>

  <Target Name="DeployMSITargetVirtuals">
    <Deploy DeployScript="$(SolutionRoot)\..\..\Push Scripts\SampleDeploy.xml"
            KillAppPathFilename="$(KillAppPathFilename)"
            RemoteExecutePathFilename="$(RemoteExecutePathFilename)"/>
      
  </Target>
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Notes

  • Team Deploy requires a seperate download of PSTools for the remote execution of MSIs and killing processes before installation.

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