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When you are monitoring the TFS build from Visual Studio (2008 or 2005), you can see where it is up to.
The issue is that I have some Post-Build custom steps I would like the developer to be able to see directly throught the UI. Those steps take some times and we can also get a ‘timing’ of the build step.
Any idea how to have it displayed?
This is the pattern that I normally use for adding steps to the build report in TFS 2008. (See http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/buildwallboard/ for the full example that I usually use in my Team Build talks)
Basically, the magic is that there is a custom task provided for you in TFS2008 called ‘BuildStep’. Here is the section where I generate and MSI installer and build the appropriate build steps in the report:
So initially, I create the build step and save the Id of the step in a propery called InstallerStepId. After I have performed my task, I set the status of that step to Succeeded. If any errors occur during the step then I set the status of that step to Failed.
Good luck,
Martin.