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Asked: 2026-06-14T20:51:48+00:00

I am working with integrating in MSBuild xml tasks file in to a visual

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I am working with integrating in MSBuild xml tasks file in to a visual studio 2012 solution. The file performs 2 tasks, 1 to validate against StyleCop, the other to run FxCop analysis. I have created the msbuild file from tutorials on the web.

My question is, where should the file be stored on the file system? I presume its outside of the solution. How do I set up the solution to run this msbuid file? I use TFS for source control and TFS Build 2010 for CI so I am looking to integrate it in to this also.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here is the way that I have our source control tree laid out where I work:

    Root
 -- Artifacts  (Reports folder for build.  Items are not checked into TFS)
 -- BuildOutput (location where all compiled code is sent.  Items are not checked into TFS)
 -- BuildScripts
   -- ConfigFiles (config files used for different kinds of builds)
   -- MSBuild (MSBuild scripts that I have written for our build)
   -- MSBuild Extensions (MSBuild extension that I use as part of my build)
 -- Database (folder for all database related items)
 -- src (folder for all DotNET source code)
 -- ThirdParty (folder to hold all of our third party dependencies like NUnit, Specflow, etc)

    This has worked out fairly well for us.

    Typically, when you want to integrate things like styleCop and FXCop you will include them as steps in your overall build process and not directly into a project or solution. For example, the build process that I manage has 12 different steps that it performs. I do things like 1) compile code, 2) run unit test and code coverage, 3) run integration tests, 4) run duplicate finder, etc. You would want to set up the same kind of thing as part of your build process.

    I do not have much experience with TFS Build (I started using TeamCity by JetBrains over TFS Build) but you should be able to modify your build template to integrate your MSBuild scripts into your build process. I also think there are some extensions for TFS Build that allow your to execute StyleCop and FXCop directly within the build template.

    Hope this helps.

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