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DDD Scotland - May 7th 2011

Richard Fennell

I am the Engineering Director of the Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in BizTalk & SharePoint based business automation.

As Engineering Director I am responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow my company, and our clients, to deliver solutions efficiently. All Black Mable's development activity is underpinned by Visual Studio Team System an agile process model. I am an MVP for Team System and a Certified Scrum Master

I am a regular presenter at community events in the UK and Ireland (and the rest of the world given a chance) where my most common subject is software testing and the development process.

If you want to get in touch please use the contact form via my blog 

Sessions Submitted

Creating custom build activities for TFS 2010


I am sure you have all wanted to do something during an automated build that the out the box solution does not do. In the past you might have written custom MSBuild task. The TFS 2010 build system is now based on WF4, not just MSBuild. This means that all those custom task you wrote for your old build process will need a bit of work get the features your want.

In this session I will show the options you have to integrate your own custom activities into the 2TFS 010 build process including using your old MSBuild tasks all the way to writing your own new WF custom build activity from scratch. Or in other words a descent into the hell of one of the most arcane development processes I have every some across.


Sponsors

  • Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Microsoft
  • Developer Express
  • JetBrains
  • ScotlandIS
  • Storm ID
  • Gibraltar
  • ComponentOne
  • Ramada Jarvis
  • Wrox

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