How to Build TFS Build Locally?

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If you need to test your TFS build after playing around with the TFSBuild.proj, you can do that by do the following:

  • Synchronize the source control to your workspace.
  • Open Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt (or Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt), located under Start>Microsoft Visual Studio 2005>Visual Studio Tools.
  • Change the directory into your TFSBuild.proj.
  • Call MSBuild by passing several parameters as follow: MSBuild TFSBuild.proj /p:SolutionRoot=..\..
  • If you need to test how the build will drop the binaries, pass an extra parameter, for example: MSBuild /p:SolutionRoot=..\.. /p:BinariesRoot=d:\Drop\Binaries\BuildTest

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