Hi All, Till now we have seen various development tools ship with VSTS which help to leverage our development practices and maintain better code quality ,today I am going to talk about another very important tool called “Team Build” which meant to build your project and perform some other tasks automatically as instructed while creating the build . Team Build is a part of Visual Studio Team Foundation and accessible to every one. Broadly it is a new build engine that executes builds based on a set of instructions and tasks defined in an XML-based script , run unit cases, maintain versioning and extensible etc (like Nant) which makes our deployment process much more easy .MSBuild is extensible , flexible and tightly integrated with other VSTS tools and user friendly wizard interface helps to create your initial build types , the supported build types are • Full Builds
• Partial Builds
• Nightly Builds
• Incremental Builds Apart from this you can specify the list of tasks to be perform as instruction for your build process as 1. Get the latest source code from version control
2. Compile sources
3. Run static analysis tool
4. Execute unit tests
5. Update work items
6. Perform code coverage
7. Calculate code churn
8. Produce build reports
9. Drop exe /output into predefined location These data (output) can be mentor through team build report , as you progress in your project development you can analyze the report data of multiple version of build to check & track your project quality and health . In my next article I will explain how to create build type . Cheers
Anand | 
