This page walks you through the process of setting up a build for a ReadyRoll project in VSTS/TFS.

Follow these instructions if the version of TFS you are using does not have the ReadyRoll build template installed.

Instructions

For your chosen project, under the Build and Release tab, do the following:

1. Create a new build definition
2. On the 'Select a template' page, click 'Start with an Empty process'

Then add the following build tasks, in order:

1. NuGet Tool Installer*
2. ReadyRoll Download Build Components*
3. ReadyRoll Set Target Database
4. Visual Studio Build
5. Copy Files
6. Publish Build Artifacts

Then fill in the following fields on the tasks:

• Visual Studio Build
  • MSBuild Arguments: /p:GenerateSqlPackage=True @"$(Build.SourcesDirectory)\$(ReadyRoll.MsBuildResponseFileName)"
  • Platform: $(BuildPlatform)
  • Configuration: $(BuildConfiguration)
• Copy Files
  • Source Folder: $(Build.SourcesDirectory)
  • Contents: **\bin\$(BuildConfiguration)\**
  • Target Folder: $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)
• Publish Artifacts
  • Path to publish: $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)
  • Artifact name: drop

Finally, on the Variables tab, set the following variables:

• BuildConfiguration: release
• BuildPlatform: any cpu

Ensure the check box 'Settable at queue time' next to each variable is selected also.

*NuGet Tool Installer and ReadyRoll Download Build Components

These two tasks are designed to ensure the agent machine has the latest version of the ReadyRoll Build Components installed. These are optional tasks.

If these tasks cannot be included (for instance, the version of TFS you are using doesn't support one/both of them) you must ensure the agent machine has the ReadyRoll Build Components installed. You can find information about how to do this here.