Automaton is a Continuous Integration engine optimized for Team System and Team Builds. Included is the TeamFoundationExtensions class library which includes helpers and tasks for TFS and MSBuild. THIS PROJECT IS CLOSED, CI FEATURES WAS ADDED TO TFS 2008 AND IMPROVED IN 2010.

The TFS Check-in Validation Tool extends TFS Team Build 2008 by enabling buddy build queuing (pre-checkin), validating checkins using shelvesets, and build agent pooling, all from the VS 2008 IDE.

Visual Studio addin which makes easier to observe all your TFS builds in hierarchical structure, check status of builds and quickly call common functions.

CCNetConfig is a GUI tool to create and maintain the ccnet configuration file for CruiseControl.NET.

CCStatistics allows you to rebuild your historical statistics information from all your legacy build results. This is critical if you add a new statistic to measure, as by 'out of the box' it will not import any existing information. This solves that issue when the data (via XPat

Welcome to the FreeToDev MSBuild Tasks Suite. Here you will find a collection of MSBuild tasks dedicated to the .Net 3.5 Framework. The Suite provides over 170 tasks covering the .Net Framework, BizTalk, FxCop, IIS7, SourceSafe, StyleCop, Team Foundation Server, WMI and more. Every task is provided with clear documentation and a working sample. Where applicable, tasks also provide remote support, e.g. IIS7, GAC etc. The Suite can be installed via an MSI for easy and consistent deployment. There will be frequent updates to the tasks over the next few weeks to provide additional remote support, new tasks and better documentation, so keep an eye on progress and provide as much feedback as you can via the Discussions and Issue Tracker pages.

MSBuildShellExtension lets you build Visual Studio solutions and projects as well as any MSBuild file, without ever opening the Visual Studio.

NuGetter is a TFS 2010 Build Activity designed to provide packaging and deployment management to projects destined for a NuGet Gallery.

Public Components

This is the latest version of the SDC Tasks for .NET 2.0. The SDC Tasks are a collection of MSBuild tasks designed to make your life easier. You can use these tasks in your own MSBuild projects. You can use them stand alone and, if all else fails, you can use them as sample code. There are over 300 tasks included in this library including tasks for: creating websites, creating application pools, creating ActiveDirectory users, running FxCop, configuring virtual servers, creating zip files, configuring COM+, creating folder shares, installing into the GAC, configuring SQL Server, configuring BizTalk 2004 and BizTalk 2006 etc. Check the Issue Tracker for bugs and known issues. I'll try and keep this up to date.

MSBuild tasks & loggers and other related material.

Deploy MSIs from TFS Team Build 2010 using these custom activities. This collection of activities include everything you need to deploy cilent apps to multiple PCs and windows services to Servers.

This tools destroy a build deleted by using Tfs Api and the command line Tf build destroy

Use lights, lava lamps, street lights etc to notify the development team that the build is running, succeeded, and failed.

TFSBuildManager is a utility to manage Team Foundation build types in an environment other than Visual Studio.

Team Explorer Builds extension for Visual Studio 2012 / 2013 providing a tree view of build definitions.

The TFS PowerPack is a set of tools for clients using the TFS server. The tools were made to satisfy needs and add more features not provided by the original installation of TFS.

The TFS Xcode Build project aims to automate Xcode (iOS, Mac OS) builds via Team Build. With source code stored in TFS, TFS Xcode Build will remotly connect to a Mac via SSH and instrument building the software through the xcodebuild command line.

Visual Studio ALM Rangers build templates and guidance for build, release and deploy (BRD) build automation.

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical guidance for the customization and deployment of Team Foundation Build activities such as versioning and code signing.