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Abdelrahman ELGAMAL
Abdelrahman ELGAMAL

Reputation: 434

A Free graphical user Interface tool for MSBuild with TFS?

Is there a free tool that allows us to create / edit the msbuild projects and automatically integrates with TFS?

I found:

1 - http://www.attrice.info/msbuild/

2 - http://www.finalbuilder.com/home.aspx

By cons they are not free (Licensing Website; unlimited exceeds $ 3,500)

MSBuild is free because it comes with the framework 3.5 but I found it annoying that whenever I have changes to make in my build, I am forced to change the MSBuild build file (xml ) by hand!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1501

Answers (1)

Gern Blanston
Gern Blanston

Reputation: 42660

In the 2010 release of TFS\Visual Studio ALM introduced Window Workflow as an "option"(I use quotes since not sure exactly how to describe WF\MsBuild but more info here SO3004671)... but since you mention framework 3.5 perhaps you mean that use are using TFS 2008.

Note Finalbuild does much more that just deal with MsBuild, it has many other 'tasks' that be added to a FinalBuilder script. Also another option along the same lines as FinalBuilder is VisBuildPro. I believe there is a trial version of either you could test out.

As for cost you probably don't need a site license at least to start with. Really you probably just need as many as the # build machines you have and\or the number of people creating build scripts (depending upon where they do their work).

I have created builds in the past that are mainly using TFS as the method to schedule or kick off a build and get the source (and do the build reporting) but then do the rest of the work a FinalBuilder script.

Upvotes: 2

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