Hi,

What happens if you use Team Explorer 2005 to create the Build Type?

Wes

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Sniderman
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 4:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Building TFS2008 from VS2005 IDE

By default, the TFS2008 Wizard is putting 
"<DropLocation>\\UNKNOWN\drops</DropLocation<file:///\\UNKNOWN\drops%3c\DropLocation>>"
 into the build types.  I've now tried both setting it to it's valid value - 
and deleting it - but not difference - I still get the error...

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Colestock
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 1:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Building TFS2008 from VS2005 IDE

Did you remove the DropLocation property from your build file?  This is needed 
for backwards compat with 2005 clients (even though the server value takes 
precedence)

Scott Colestock
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Allanson, Mark 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Interesting the only time I have seen that in the 2008 UI with a 2005 build 
script was when I added an extra property group at the top of the proj file, 
but you get the error every time you build, not sporadically.

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On 22 Dec 2008, at 16:24, "Daniel Sniderman" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

My client is using TFS 2008 SP1 but most applications are still using VS2005.  
I have a number of build types that until recently have built without any issue 
using the VS2005 GUI.  Recently SOME of the build types have been getting the 
error (as a message box) from the VS2005 GUI "Drop location is not defined in 
the Build Type <Build Type Name"



Another symptom I've noticed, if you right click on the "Team Builds" node on 
the VS2005 Team Explorer and click "Build Team Project Applications..." in the 
dropdown for "Build Type", the build types appear to be in a "Random" order - 
and don't include the projects I'm having the issue with.  Note that even after 
adding the Property of "DropLocation" to the "TFSBuild.proj" for the build type 
- the problem continues.



As a "Work Around" I'm having the developers build from VS2008 or Web Access - 
but it would be preferred to be able to build from the IDE they are developing 
in.



Also - is there a way to control in the VS2005 IDE what "Build Machines" show 
in the dropdown?  We have a "Dev" TFS environment with a "DEV" TFS2008SP1 Build 
Agent - that I would like to NOT be able to be requested from "Production TFS"



The problem seemed to start happening after I restored the Production TFS 
backup to the Dev Server (not sure if that's conincdence)





Thanks!



Daniel Sniderman

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