We need to integrate Karma test runner into TeamCity and for that I&#39;d like to give sys-engineers small script (powershell or whatever) that would:

 1. pick up desired version number from some config file (I guess I can put it as a comment right in the `karma.conf.js`)

 2. check if the defined version of karma runner installed in npm&#39;s global repo

 3. if it&#39;s not, or the installed version is older than desired: pick up and install right version

 4. run it: `karma start .\Scripts-Tests\karma.conf.js --reporters teamcity --single-run `

So my real question is: &quot;how can one check in a script, if desired version of package installed?&quot;. Should you do the check, or it&#39;s safe to just call `npm -g install` everytime?

*I don&#39;t want to always check and install the latest available version, because other config values may become incompatible*

npm check and update package if needed

Visual Studio 2010 has a Publish command that allows you to publish your Web Application Project to a file system location. I&#39;d like to do this on my TeamCity build server, so I need to do it with the solution runner or msbuild. I tried using the Publish target, but I think that might be for ClickOnce:

    msbuild Project.csproj /t:Publish /p:Configuration=Deploy

I basically want to do exactly what a web deployment project does, but without the add-in. I need it to compile the WAP, remove any files unnecessary for execution, perform any [web.config transformations][1], and copy the output to a specified location.

**My Solution**, based on Jeff Siver&#39;s answer

    &lt;Target Name=&quot;Deploy&quot;&gt;
        &lt;MSBuild Projects=&quot;$(SolutionFile)&quot; 
                 Properties=&quot;Configuration=$(Configuration);DeployOnBuild=true;DeployTarget=Package&quot; 
                 ContinueOnError=&quot;false&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;Exec Command=&quot;&amp;quot;$(ProjectPath)\obj\$(Configuration)\Package\$(ProjectName).deploy.cmd&amp;quot; /y /m:$(DeployServer) -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule&quot; 
              ContinueOnError=&quot;false&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;/Target&gt;


  [1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465326.aspx

How to Publish Web with msbuild?

I would like to ask you which automated build environment you consider better, based on practical experience. I&#39;m planning to do some .Net and some Java development, so I would like to have a tool that supports both these platforms.

I&#39;ve been reading around and found out about [CruiseControl.NET][1], used on stackoverflow development, and [TeamCity][2] with its support for build agents on different OS-platforms and based on different programming languages. So, if you have some practical experience on both of those, which one do you prefer and why?

Currently, I&#39;m mostly interested in the ease of use and management of the tool, much less in the fact that CC is open source, and TC is a subject to licensing at some point when you have much projects to run (because, I need it for a small amount of projects).

Also, if there is some other tool that meets the above-mentioned and you believe it&#39;s worth a recommendation - feel free to include it in the discussion.


  [1]: http://www.cruisecontrolnet.org
  [2]: http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/index.html

CruiseControl [.Net] vs TeamCity for continuous integration?

I use TeamCity which in turn invokes msbuild (.NET 4). I have a strange issue in that after a build is complete (and it doesn&#39;t seem to matter if it was a successful build or not), msbuild.exe stays open, and locks one of the files, which means every time TeamCity tries to clear its work directory, it fails, and can&#39;t continue.

This happens *almost* every time.

I&#39;m really lost on this one, so I&#39;ll try to provide as much detail as possible.

 * Server is an Intel Core i7, 2 GB ram, with Windows Server 2008 standard 64-bit SP2.
 * In TeamCity, the msbuild runner is configured with the `/m` command-line parameter (which means to use multiple cores)
 * The file in question is **ALWAYS** the same external DLL that is referenced in one of the .NET projects, in the path `External Tools\Telerik\Telerik.Reporting.Dll`. (There are several other .DLL files included in the `External Tools` dir in a similar path structure which never cause this problem). Currently this is with the trial version of Telerik reports, in case that makes any difference.
 * When the issue happens, there are always several `msbuild.exe *32` processes listed in Task manager: I believe there are 7. Using Process Explorer, they all look like top-level processes (no parents). They&#39;re all using from 20-50MB ram, and 0.0% CPU. 
 * If I wait 1-3 minutes, the msbuild.exe processes exit on their own, and TeamCity can then update the work directory properly. 
 * If I manually terminate the msbuild processes, TeamCity&#39;s update will work again immediately.
 * Indexing services are turned off in Windows (though the prior two points pretty much confirm it&#39;s msbuild.exe causing the problem).
 * There are no special properties on Telerik.reporting.dll. The only SVN property is `svn:mime-type = application/octet-stream`

Has anyone run across this before? 

msbuild.exe staying open, locking files

We are a Java shop looking for a CI tool to use.
Both [Hudson][1] and [Teamcity][2] seem to be free but Teamcity seems slicker and with more support.

I was wondering why one would still use Hudson and if anyone could provide any argument for/against either?


  [1]: http://hudson-ci.org/
  [2]: http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

Hudson or Teamcity for continuous integration?

A few projects in my client&#39;s solution have a post-build event: `xcopy` the build output to a specific folder. This works fine when building locally. However, in TeamCity, I *occasionally* get 

&gt; xcopy [...] exited with code 2

If I use regular `copy`, it exits with code 1. I expect this has something to do with file locks, although the specific files being copied are not the same, so perhaps just locking on the shared destination directory. I use `/y` to not prompt on overwriting files.

Why this fails in TeamCity but not locally?


Why would a post-build step (xcopy) occasionally exit with code 2 in a TeamCity build?

I&#39;ve been using Selenium for a number of months, which we&#39;re using to automate some of our internal testing processes. The scripts have been passing fine. I&#39;ve recently upgraded to C# 2.40.0 webdriver using FF 27.01 and our scripts are now failing in random places with the following error. 

    [Portal.SmokeTest.SmokeRunTest.Booking] TearDown method failed. OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL htt(p)://localhost:7055/hub/session/56e99e88-ba17-4d12-bef1-c6a6367ccc2f/element timed out after 60 seconds.
      ----&gt; System.Net.WebException : The operation has timed out
    TearDown : OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL htt(p)://localhost:7055/hub/session/56e99e88-ba17-4d12-bef1-c6a6367ccc2f/window timed out after 60 seconds.
      ----&gt; System.Net.WebException : The operation has timed out
    [09:01:20]
    [Portal.SmokeTest.SmokeRunTest.Booking] TearDown method failed. OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL htt(p)://localhost:7055/hub/session/56e99e88-ba17-4d12-bef1-c6a6367ccc2f/element timed out after 60 seconds.
      ----&gt; System.Net.WebException : The operation has timed out
    TearDown : OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL htt(p)://localhost:7055/hub/session/56e99e88-ba17-4d12-bef1-c6a6367ccc2f/window timed out after 60 seconds.
      ----&gt; System.Net.WebException : The operation has timed out
       at OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.DefaultWait`1.PropagateExceptionIfNotIgnored(Exception e)
       at OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.DefaultWait`1.Until[TResult](Func`2 condition)
       at Portal.Test.Helpers.Process_Bookings.OpenBookings.SelectBooking(String bookingnumber)
       at Portal.SmokeTest.SmokeRunTest.Booking() in d:\TeamCityAgent\work\dac1dcea7f2e80df\SmokeTests\SmokeRunTest.cs:line 68
    --WebException
       at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
       at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)
    --TearDown
       at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)
       at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)
       at OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox.Internal.ExtensionConnection.Execute(Command commandToExecute)
       at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
       at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Close()
       at Portal.Test.Helpers.Setup.CloseWebdriver()
       at Portal.SmokeTest.SmokeRunTest.TearDown() in d:\TeamCityAgent\work\dac1dcea7f2e80df\SmokeTests\SmokeRunTest.cs:line 162
    --WebException
       at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
       at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)

The latest error I&#39;ve managed to track down to one single line of code:

    _setup.driver.FindElement(By.XPath(&quot;//button[@class=&#39;buttonSmall lockBookingButton&#39;]&quot;)).Click();

The annoying thing is, trying to fix the problem is proving difficult, as if I run the test on my local machine, in debug it passes.  Additionally, if I run it via the NUNIT runner on the build machine I&#39;m running the test off, it also passes. It only seems to fail as part of our automated build running process when using Teamcity. Like I said, this has been running fine for months previously, and the only thing that has changed is the selenium webdriver kit. 

I have experienced this problem before, whilst in debug, and when a `Click()` line of code was called, Firefox appeared to lock up, and only stopping the test would allow Firefox to continue. There are a number of suggestions on here including modifying the webdriver source? I&#39;d like to not go down that route if possible if anyone else can offer any suggestions.

Selenium Error - The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver timed out after 60 seconds

We have several build machines, each running a single TeamCity build agent. Each machine is very strong, and we&#39;d like to run several build agents on the same machine.

Is this possible, **without using virtualization**? Are there quality alternatives to TeamCity that support this? 

Running multiple TeamCity Agents on the same computer?

I have a TeamCity server setup to do my CI builds. I&#39;m building and testing a C# solution and running some custom MSBuild tasks. One of these tasks is printing a warning in my build output... 

&gt; MSBuild command line parameters contains &quot;/property:&quot; or &quot;/p:&quot; parameters. Please use Build Parameteres instead.

I don&#39;t understand what this means or how to remove it. It doesn&#39;t Google well (with or without the typo). I ran the task from the command line (with `/verbosity:diagnostic`) and it doesn&#39;t appear, so I believe it&#39;s a TeamCity message.

The MSBuild task is

    &lt;Target Name=&quot;InstallDb&quot;&gt;
      &lt;MakeDir Directories=&quot;$(DbPath)&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;Exec Command=&quot;sqlcmd -S .\sqlexpress -i db\OmnyxDatabaseDrop.sql&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;Exec Command=&quot;sqlcmd -S .\sqlexpress -i db\OmnyxDatabaseCreate.sql -v DbPath=&amp;quot;$(DbPath)&amp;quot;&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;Exec Command=&quot;sqlcmd -S .\sqlexpress -i db\OmnyxDatabaseProgrammability.sql&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;/Target&gt;

And the relevant TeamCity step information is

&gt; MSBuild version: 4.0  
MSBuild ToolsVersion: 4.0	
Run platform: x64	
Targets: InstallDb	
Command line parameters: /property:DbPath=%env.DB_PATH%	

TeamCity says to use &quot;Build Parameters&quot; instead of &quot;/property:&quot; in an MSBuild step. What does that mean?

I&#39;ve got a PowerShell script as follows

    ##teamcity[progressMessage &#39;Beginning build&#39;]
    # If the build computer is not running the appropriate version of .NET, then the build will not run. Throw an error immediately.
    if( (ls &quot;$env:windir\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0*&quot;) -eq $null ) {
        throw &quot;This project requires .NET 4.0 to compile. Unfortunately .NET 4.0 doesn&#39;t appear to be installed on this machine.&quot;
        ##teamcity[buildStatus status=&#39;FAILURE&#39; ]
    }

    ##teamcity[progressMessage &#39;Setting up variables&#39;]
    # Set up variables for the build script
    $invocation = (Get-Variable MyInvocation).Value
    $directorypath = Split-Path $invocation.MyCommand.Path
    $v4_net_version = (ls &quot;$env:windir\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0*&quot;).Name
    $nl = [Environment]::NewLine

    Copy-Item -LiteralPath &quot;$directorypath\packages\NUnit.2.6.2\lib\nunit.framework.dll&quot; &quot;$directorypath\Pandell.Tests\bin\debug&quot; -Force

    ##teamcity[progressMessage &#39;Using msbuild.exe to build the project&#39;]
    # Build the project using msbuild.exe.
    # Note we&#39;ve already determined that .NET is already installed on this computer.
    cmd /c C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\$v4_net_version\msbuild.exe &quot;$directorypath\Pandell.sln&quot; /p:Configuration=Release
    cmd /c C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\$v4_net_version\msbuild.exe &quot;$directorypath\Pandell.sln&quot; /p:Configuration=Debug

    # Break if the build throws an error.
    if(! $?) {
        throw &quot;Fatal error, project build failed&quot;
        ##teamcity[buildStatus status=&#39;FAILURE&#39; ]
    }

    ##teamcity[progressMessage &#39;Build Passed&#39;]
    # Good, the build passed
    Write-Host &quot;$nl project build passed.&quot;  -ForegroundColor Green


    ##teamcity[progressMessage &#39;running tests&#39;]
    # Run the tests.
    cmd /c $directorypath\build_tools\nunit\nunit-console.exe $directorypath\Pandell.Tests\bin\debug\Pandell.Tests.dll

    # Break if the tests throw an error.
    if(! $?) {
        throw &quot;Test run failed.&quot;
        ##teamcity[buildStatus status=&#39;FAILURE&#39; ]
    }

    ##teamcity[progressMessage &#39;Tests passed&#39;]

From what I&#39;m lead to believe, [an uncaught `Throw`][1] will result in an exit code of `1`, but unfortunately TeamCity is saying otherwise.

    [19:32:20]Test run failed.
    [19:32:20]At C:\BuildAgent\work\e903de7564e599c8\build.ps1:44 char:2
    [19:32:20]+     throw &quot;Test run failed.&quot;
    [19:32:20]+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    [19:32:20]    + CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (Test run failed.:String) [],
    [19:32:20]   RuntimeException
    [19:32:20]    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Test run failed.
    [19:32:20]
    [19:32:20]Process exited with code 0
    [19:32:20]Publishing internal artifacts
    [19:32:20][Publishing internal artifacts] Sending build.finish.properties.gz file
    [19:32:20]Build finished

It might also be important to note that my `Execution Mode` is set to `Execute .ps1 script with &quot;-File&quot; argument`.

I tried changing it to `Put script into PowerShell stdin with &quot;-Command -&quot; arguments`, but then it failed with an exit code of `1` even with passing tests. I&#39;m sure that running it as `-File` is going to be the right way.

If I open up the script located at `C:\BuildAgent\work\e903de7564e599c8\build.ps1` and run it manually in CMD, it does the same thing... I.e., the failing tests fail, and the `%errorlevel%` is still `0`.

Yet, if I run it in PowerShell and call `$LASTEXITCODE`, it returns the right code every time.

 [1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/windows-powershell-exit-codes?Redirected=true



Why are my PowerShell exit codes always &quot;0&quot;?

I&#39;m setting up TeamCity as my build server. 

I have my project set up, it is updating correctly from subversion, and building ok.

So what&#39;s next?  

Ideally, I&#39;d like to have it auto deploy to a test server, with a manual deploy to a live/staging server.

What&#39;s the best way to go about this?

Since I am using C#/ASP.Net, should I add a Web Deployment project to my solution?

How to deploy after a build with TeamCity?

Is there a way to restart a TeamCity server running on Windows from its web interface? I haven&#39;t found a button or documentation whether this is possible.

Restart TeamCity server via web interface

I have a VS 2012 web project /sln that I am trying to build in TeamCity. it uses .NET 4.5 which is installed on TeamCity.

The TeamCity server has **VS  2010 installed only**.

I get this error when the build runs:

    C:\BuildAgent\work\d5bc4e1b8005d077\CUSAAdmin.Web\CUSAAdmin.Web.csproj(799, 3): 
    error MSB4019: 
    The imported project 
        &quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets&quot; was not found. 
     Confirm that the path in the &lt;Import&gt; declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. Project CUSAAdmin.Web\CUSAAdmin.Web.csproj failed. 
     Project CUSAAdmin.sln failed. 


It is trying to use Visual Studio 2012 (v11.0) to build. 

I have set the **VisualStudioVersion** to be **10** in the **build.xml** though??

     &lt;Target Name=&quot;BuildPackage&quot;&gt;
       &lt;MSBuild Projects=&quot;CUSAAdmin.sln&quot; ContinueOnError=&quot;false&quot; 
         Targets=&quot;Rebuild&quot; 
          Properties=&quot;Configuration=$(Configuration); VisualStudioVersion=10.0&quot;  /&gt;


As well inside the project it is defaulting to VS2010

      &lt;PropertyGroup&gt;
    &lt;VisualStudioVersion Condition=&quot;&#39;$(VisualStudioVersion)&#39; == &#39;&#39;&quot;&gt;10.0&lt;/VisualStudioVersion&gt;
    &lt;VSToolsPath 
        Condition=&quot;&#39;$(VSToolsPath)&#39; == &#39;&#39;&quot;&gt;$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)&lt;/VSToolsPath&gt;

MSBuild in TeamCity of Visual Studio 2012 solution

I installed TeamCity and got it working against my project. However, I have since realized that I don&#39;t want it the administration page to be configured on port 80. I&#39;m going to have other websites on that server that I want on the default port. How do I change the configured port? 

I wandered around the configurations a bit and looked through the administration settings but couldn&#39;t figure it out.

Change port for TeamCity web server

I have put a library that my team uses into a nuget package that is deployed from TeamCity into a network folder.  I cannot debug into this code though!  SymbolSource is one solution I have read about but I would much rather find some way to have access to the .pdb/source files directly from TeamCity.  Does anyone know how to do this?  

__Edit.__  When I check `&#39;Include Symbols and Source&#39;` in the Nuget Pack build step, TeamCity creates a .Symbol.nupkg in addition to the .nupkg file in the network folder.  The .Symbol.nupkg contains the src and the .pdb file.  

__Edit.__  I unchecked `&#39;Include Symbols and Source&#39;` on TeamCity and added the following to my nuspec file:

&lt;!-- language: lang-xml --&gt;

      &lt;files&gt;
        &lt;file src=&quot;..\MyLibrary\bin\release\MyLibrary.dll&quot; target=&quot;lib\net40&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;file src=&quot;..\MyLibrary\bin\release\MyLibrary.pdb&quot; target=&quot;lib\net40&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;file src=&quot;..\MyLibrary\*.cs&quot; target=&quot;src&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;file src=&quot;..\MyLibrary\**\*.cs&quot; target=&quot;src&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;/files&gt;

This added the dll, the pdb, and the source files for my library in the nuget package and didn&#39;t generate a .Symbols file which I think is only needed for symbol servers.

How to debug into my nuget package deployed from TeamCity?

I need to recover/reset the admin password for JetBrain&#39;s **TeamCity**.

I have full RDP access to the server so no problems there. It&#39;s just been 2 months since we used it so now I have forgotten my login - my usual ones don&#39;t work.

It is setup without a database at the moment, so was hoping the usernames would just be in a file somewhere, but no luck finding it so far.

TeamCity forgotten admin password - where to look?

I&#39;m starting a small open source project, myself being the sole contributor for the time. Still, I think a [continuous integration][1] setup would be useful to detect whether I broke the build.

Is there a free, hosted continuous integration server that is suitable for **very small projects**? Googling turned up [CodeBetter][2], but I&#39;m not sure they&#39;ll accept a one-man project that is just starting up.

I prefer [TeamCity][3], but I&#39;m open to suggestions.

Note - a **hosted** solution is a must for me. I don&#39;t want to setup and maintain a continuous integration server, so answers like &quot;TeamCity&quot; or &quot;CruiseControl&quot; are simply irrelevant.

Specific requirements:

 - I am hosting my project at [GitHub][4], so the continuous integration server needs [Git][5] integration
 - I would like the continuous integration server to run .NET integration (unit) tests
 - Nice to have - I also need access to a [MySQL][6] server (although I could modify the tests to use embedded [SQLite][7], they currently run against an external MySQL server).

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration
  [2]: http://www.jameskovacs.com/blog/AnnouncingTeamCityCodeBettercom.aspx
  [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamCity
  [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
  [5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29
  [6]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL
  [7]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite


Continuous Integration for a small .NET open source project

New to TeamCity.  I have multiple build steps.  Step 3 generates an id that is needed in step 4.  What is the best way to pass the id (a string) between step 3 and step 4?  The build steps are written in Ruby.  Can I set an environment variable?

TeamCity, passing an id generated in one build step to a later build step

I&#39;ve got an asp.net mvc deployment package that I&#39;m trying to build with team city. The package builds without any problems, but the bin folder contains file that are not needed (and cause the site to fail when present). 

If I build the same package from visual studio the additional files are not present.

The additional files are:

    Microsoft.VisualBasic.Activities.Compiler.dll
    mscorlib.dll
    normidna.nlp
    normnfc.nlp
    normnfd.nlp
    normnfkc.nlp
    normnfkd.nlp
    System.Data.dll
    System.Data.OracleClient.dll
    System.EnterpriseServices.dll
    System.EnterpriseServices.Wrapper.dll
    System.Transactions.dll
     
What can I do to prevent these additional assemblies and .nlp files from being included in the package?

**UPDATE**

After a bit more digging through log files I&#39;ve found that the `_CopyFilesMarkedCopyLocal` build task is copying the files into the bin directory. The odd thing is that the assemblies are not marked as copy local.

Why does the deployment package from my buildserver have additional assemblies?

I&#39;m looking to set up a TeamCity server for continuously building a .NET web application. I already have hosting, so I don&#39;t want to get a whole new hosting account such as AppHarbor.

I don&#39;t maintain my own physical server, nor do I want to.

I also don&#39;t want to have to pay $50 or more per month for an entire dedicated Windows machine, just to host TeamCity.

I really don&#39;t care if it&#39;s slow and on a shared machine, as it&#39;s just continuous build which will be running in the background.

I&#39;ll want to have the outputs automatically deployed to a server of my choice through FTP.

Is there anyone on the market providing hosted TeamCity environments? 

Anyone know of a hosted TeamCity build provider?

I&#39;ve got a set of test cases, some of which are expected to throw exceptions. Because of this, I have have set the attributes for these tests to expect exceptions like so:

    [ExpectedException(&quot;System.NullReferenceException&quot;)]

When I run my tests locally all is good. However when I move my tests over to the CI server running TeamCity, all my tests that have expected exceptions fail. This is a known bug.

I am aware that there is also the `Assert.Throws&lt;&gt;` and `Assert.Throws` methods that NUnit offers. 

My question is how can I make use of these instead of the attribute I&#39;m currently using?

I&#39;ve had a look around StackOverflow and tried a few things none of which seem to work for me. 

Is there a simple 1 line solution to using this?


NUnit expected exceptions

I have an ASP.NET Core project that builds properly with Visual Studio, but it doesn&#39;t build under MSBuild.

It doesn&#39;t find all the common libraries (system, etc.).

I&#39;m using TeamCity and part of the build process is a `nuget restore`.

I tried to do the same steps as TeamCity, but manually with MSBuild, and it failed, not finding the libraries.

I added a `dotnet restore` step and then it worked.

So, what is the difference between a `nuget restore` and a `dotnet restore`?


&#39;dotnet restore&#39; vs. &#39;nuget restore&#39; with TeamCity

We are a mostly MS shop at work doing .NET LOB development. We also use MS Dynamics for our CRM app... all the devs are currently using VS/SQL Server 2008. We also use VSS, but everyone hates it at work and that is quickly on its way out. 

We are begining our initiative for TDD implementation across the team (~dozen ppl). I&#39;ve gotten TeamCity setup and have my first automated builds running succesfully using the 2008 sln builder and also using SVN that a co-worker had setup who is doing the source control analysis. When demoing to managament, I think they started to buy into my snake oil and threw out the suggestions of looking into TFS. 

This threw a wrench in what I had planned for our TDD architecture; In a good way though, because I had always assumed that TFS was just too expensive and not worth it for our team (and i&#39;ve seen the same in other shops i&#39;ve worked at / know of). I do feel like MS is years behind in the TDD/CI area and that the third party products were probably much better and more mature... I still need to do a lot of research, but I figured I&#39;d come here to see if anyone has actually used both systems.

I realize the TFS encompasses a lot more then just a build server... but I didn&#39;t want to make this too broad of a question at least on purpose. ___What are the practical pros/cons of using TFS/TFB instead of TeamCity - e.g. which benefits would we lose/gain? Has anyone here actually used both systems (TFS for TDD/CI and TeamCity/SVN) and can speak from practical standpoint?___

I&#39;ve done some searching on this topic, and one post I found here on SO mentioned that the cons of TFB was it only supported MSBuild. I was planning on using FinalBuilder with TeamCity; and it appears it also supports TFS as well...

Thanks for any advice

___EDIT: Has anyone used TFS as their Build/CI server and can tell of success/failure stories?___

Team Foundation Build or TeamCity?

Does anyone know to remove a specific version of a package on a TeamCity Nuget Feed?

How to remove a specific version of a package on a TeamCity Nuget Feed?

I&#39;m wondering how to select the branch to build against using Team City 8.1.

My VCS root (Git) is set to Default:  &quot;master&quot; and Branch specifications are

    +:refs/heads/develop
    +:refs/heads/feature/*
    +:refs/heads/hotfix/*
    +:refs/heads/master
    +:refs/heads/release/*

I have a CI build set up that automatically builds anything that is checked in, which is working exactly how I want.

What I&#39;d like to do is create a scheduled QA build/deployment against the &quot;develop&quot; branch.   I see that if I click the ellipsis next to the run button, I can choose the branch on the &quot;Changes&quot; tab, but I&#39;m unable to determine how to make this &quot;stick&quot;.  Is this possible, or am I going about this wrong?

Thanks,

Joe

Select Git branch for TeamCity Build

I&#39;ve got an existing C# 4 project which I&#39;ve checked the test coverage for by using TestDriven.Net and the Visual Studio coverage feature, i.e. Test With -&gt; Coverage from the context menu.

The project contains some code I don&#39;t want covered, and I&#39;ve solved that by adding the `[ExcludeFromCodeCoverage]` for those types and methods.

We&#39;ve just upgraded TeamCity to 6.0.3, and I&#39;ve added dotCover coverage to the NUnit build step.

I&#39;ve managed to remove coverage for external assemblies such as NHibernate in the &quot;Filters&quot; section (by explicitly state the assemblies for which I want coverage), but I&#39;m struggling with how to exclude types and methods from covered assemblies.

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  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q4iNJ.png

How do I exclude types and methods from being covered by dotCover in TeamCity?

I&#39;m building/packing a web application in a build server, and it fails with the following message:

&gt; ASPNETCOMPILER error ASPCONFIG: The CodeDom provider type
&gt; &quot;Microsoft.VisualC.CppCodeProvider, CppCodeProvider, Version=10.0.0.0,
&gt; Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a&quot; could not be
&gt; located.

This is the build server environment:

 - Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
 - TeamCity 8.0.4
 - .NET 4.5
 - Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET 4
 - Windows SDK for Windows 8 and .NET 4.5
 - Portable Class Library Tools
 - ASP MVC 4

It is a ASP MVC 4 web application, targeting .NET 4.5.

The build configuration consists in building the solution with MSBuild, and deploying it to a package, so I can publish it later.

Through the log of TeamCity, I can see the error arising when MSBuild runs `aspnet_compiler.exe`.

The builds with no problem in my DEV machine and can also publish it to a local IIS without problems.

Does anyone know what may be causing this issue?

**UPDATE**

[See my answer below.][1]

  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20963170/702828

Web Application Build Error: The CodeDom provider type Microsoft.VisualC.CppCodeProvider could not be located

I want to provide a git tag to the TeamCity server to build it.
I pass the tag (i.e. `release_1.1`) as a parameter to the job. So inside the job the tag is available as `%tag%`,  but under the `Version Control Settings` I don&#39;t see any way to use this parameter so the server can checkout this tag.
Is there any way this parameter can be used in the settings to checkout the tag?

How can I build a git tag in TeamCity?

In Husdon/Jenkins, I can setup notifications when the build is broken to email the user(s) that made the checkins that broke the build. How do I do this in Teamcity?

I am aware that individual users can setup email notifications for themselves via the Teamcity interface (for when the build is broken), but I ONLY want emails sent to the users that broke the build, also I don&#39;t want the requirement that every individual user have to update their Teamcity settings. 



Email user that broke build in Teamcity

I am playing around with a TeamCity install and developing a plugin that extends a BuildServerAdapter.  When I package it up and install it to the server, teamcity-server.log contains entries for my plugin:

* found when scanning the plugins (.BuildServer\plugins) folder
* registering agent plugin from server plugin
* loads in the shared classloader
* is loaded

The plugin is also listed on the plugins page in the server administration.

Beyond that...nothing.  I&#39;ve put in various log statements, via both the logger and System.out, and I don&#39;t see them.  I&#39;ve even added an exception into the constructor, and I see no evidence of that either in the system logs.  When a build happens, there&#39;s again no evidence that my code is called.

&lt;!-- language: java --&gt;

    public class CustomBuildServerAdapter extends BuildServerAdapter {
    	
    	private SBuildServer myBuildServer;
    	private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(CustomBuildServerAdapter.class);
    	
    	private void debug(String msg) { LOG.debug(msg); System.out.println(msg); }
    	
    	public CustomBuildServerAdapter(SBuildServer aBuildServer) throws Exception {
    		throw new Exception(&quot;constructor is being called, at least we know that...&quot;);
    
    		//myBuildServer = aBuildServer;
    		//debug(&quot;constructor&quot;);
    	}
    	
    	public void register() {
    		debug(&quot;registering&quot;);
    		myBuildServer.addListener(this);
    		debug(&quot;registered&quot;);
    	}
    
    	public void buildFinished(SRunningBuild build) {
    		debug(&quot;build finished&quot;);
    		postMessage(build.getFullName() + &quot; - &quot; + build.getStatusDescriptor().getText());
    		debug(&quot;message posted&quot;);
    	}
    
    ...

The zip that I copy to `.BuildServer\plugins` has the following structure:

* MyTeamCityPlugin.zip
  * teamcity.plugin.xml
  * server
  * MyTeamCityPlugin.jar
     * package folders containing class files
     * META-INF
         * build-server-plugin.xml
         * MANIFEST.MF

Looking at other plugins, they use the following structure, so I&#39;ve tried that as well.

* MyTeamCityPlugin.zip
  * MyTeamCityPlugin
     * teamcity.plugin.xml
     * MyTeamCityPlugin.jar
         * package folders containing class files
         * META-INF
             * build-server-plugin.xml
             * MANIFEST.MF



My build-server-plugin.xml contains the following:

&lt;!-- language: xml --&gt;

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC &quot;-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd&quot;&gt;
    
    &lt;beans default-autowire=&quot;constructor&quot;&gt;
    	&lt;bean id=&quot;myplugin&quot; class=&quot;com.blah.blah.blah.CustomBuildServerAdapter&quot; init-method=&quot;register&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/beans&gt;


I&#39;m part of the way there since the teamcity-server.log does indicate it knows about the plugin, and no longer throws an exception trying to load it.  Unfortunately, not erring isn&#39;t the same working.  

Using the ant build scripts from the sample plugin, I get the following error, so I&#39;ve been packing things manually.  This results in the seemingly successful load per above.

&gt; Failed to initialize spring context for plugin MyTeamCityPlugin.  Error creating bean with name &#39;simpleRunnerRunType&#39;:  instantiation of bean failed.

Can anyone give me the kick I need to get this running correctly?


TeamCity loads custom plugin, but there&#39;s no evidence the plugin code runs

I am working on upgrading our TeamCity projects from VS2012 to VS2015 and I am running into an issue compiling our MVC application. 

Old MSBuild (v4.0.30319.34209) generates a file in the obj directory called `MyApplication.Web.Mvc.dll.licenses` which apparently is required for building, but we have no idea what the file is actually used for.

New MSBuild (v14.0.23107.0) does not create this `MyApplication.Web.Mvc.dll.licenses` file, so the build fails with the following error:
    
    CSC error CS1566: Error reading resource &#39;MyApplication.Web.Mvc.dll.licenses&#39; 
    -- &#39;Could not find file &#39;C:\BuildAgent\work\58ddf5f1234d8c8a\application\MyApplication\MyApplication.Web.Mvc\obj\Release\MyApplication.Web.Mvc.dll.licenses&#39;.&#39; 

I have been running the builds manually via cmd on the machine, and the `dll.licenses` file gets created whenever running the build using the old msbuild, just not the new one.

The file gets created on the development machines running VS2015, but not on the Teamcity build server. So it seems to me that something else is out of date?

*.dll.licenses file in obj directory not created with msbuild in TeamCity

I am trying to get a build process set up in TeamCity 5, and I am encountering an access denied error when trying to copy some files.  I see that my build agent is running as &quot;SYSTEM&quot; now, and I think that&#39;s part of the problem.  I&#39;d like to change that user identity.  The trouble is that I can&#39;t figure out how to change those settings on the build agent.  How can I change the build user identity?



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