Where to manage the build location in TFS 2008
Until now I’d been confused between the agent working directory, the build service accounts’s temp folder, and the workspace created by Team Build. Do I have to manage all three settings? Do they have to be different? Today I discovered there’s just one location I need to manage for each build agent.
In my efforts to clean up and standardise where projects are being downloaded and built on our build server I discovered that the workspaces automatically created by Team Build don’t actually determine where the build happens. This is because every time TFS performs a build it deletes and recreates a workspace for that build. The source directory path it uses comes from the Build Agent definition:
Man, stop moving your blog! I had a live bookmark for your last home and was wondering why you never updated it, looks like there’s some good reading to be had here. You never told me you got to speak to Ballmer at Mix, nice! Did he jump around the stage while you spoke to him? Must have a watch of his speech….
Comment by robbied — May 19, 2008 @ 7:10 am