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John Livermore
John Livermore

Reputation: 31313

Get values of WellKnownEnvironmentVariables.SourcesDirectory from custom TFS activity

Using the following custom TFS activity I am attempting to get the sources directory from the WellKnownEnvironmentVariables.SourcesDirectory. However, it always returns null. How can I get the value of WellKnownEnvironmentVariables.SourcesDirectory from within the C# code of a custom activity (I don't want to pass the value in)?

public class MyActivity : CodeActivity
{
    protected override void Execute(CodeActivityContext context)
    {
        var eve = new EnvironmentVariableExtension();
        var sourcesDirectory = eve.GetEnvironmentVariable<string>(context, WellKnownEnvironmentVariables.SourcesDirectory);
    }
}

I also tried this which returns null as well...

public class MyActivity : CodeActivity
{
    protected override void Execute(CodeActivityContext context)
    {
        var sourcesDirectory = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TF_BUILD_SOURCESDIRECTORY");
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2577

Answers (1)

Dylan Smith
Dylan Smith

Reputation: 22245

If you want to get a value of an environment variable from your code, just use something like this:

System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TF_BUILD_SOURCESDIRECTORY")

Full list of TFS Build related environment variables can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/hh850448.aspx#program_or_script

Upvotes: 1

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