MSBuild 4.0 and MSBuild 3.5 problems on TFS Continuous Integration server

Have you ever had problems with transformation your build server to new project configuration, new version of .NET Framework or MSBuild? If you answer yes and your configuration connected to TFS build server and MSBuild 3,5 or 4.0 than this article for you. Maybe you have mistakes MSB3644 or "MSB3245: Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the assembly "RadDock.Net2". Check to make sure the assembly exists on disk. If this reference is required by your code, youmay get compilation errors." on you your build machine? More...

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Continuous Integration and build engineering in Microsoft .NET

In this article will be introduction to Continuous Integration in .NET. I will use two cool book regarding to this topic: "Addison.Wesley.Continuous.Integration.Jun.2007" and "Deploying .NET applications. Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce" which you can download at the end of this article. I will do some kind of book review with best for my opinion phrases, questions and advices. Have you ever heard the term “integration hell”?

It is a situation where it takes more time to integrate the changes into the code base than to develop them. Normally the developer takes a repository snapshot to work with. While he is working on his copy the main code base changes because other developers submit their changes. But he has to eventually submit his work. That’s when all (integration) hell may break loose. More...

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