TFS Plug-in for CruiseControl.NET

New Post: Nant task for VSTS Unit testing?

shanking — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:02:44 GMT

Hi

I am using Nant +Nant contrib for my build. Using Visual Studio 2008 IDE, I have written a C# web service application and using Microsoft Visual Studio Team system to do the unit testing. Is there a Nant or NantContrib plugin that can be used to have tasks to execute VSTS test class? Any suggestions?

NEW POST: Exception details

hananiel — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:48:03 GMT

I am trying to use ccnet with vsts, but its disconcerting to see this issue. Why would anyone have to recompile code to see the exception. Would it be a really good idea to show what the exception is or log it in debug mode? I am downloading the source file now...

COMMENTED ISSUE: Exclusion Support

omicronbp — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:13:27 GMT

I'm using a source control block like this:

{{
<sourcecontrol type="filtered">
<sourceControlProvider type="vsts" autoGetSource="true">
<server>http://myserver:8080</server>
<project>$/My/Path</project>
<workingDirectory>C:\My\Build\Path</workingDirectory>
<cleanCopy>true</cleanCopy>
</sourceControlProvider>
<exclusionFilters>
<pathFilter><pattern>**/Documentation/**</pattern></pathFilter>
<pathFilter><pattern>**/Spikes/**</pattern></pathFilter>
</exclusionFilters>
</sourcecontrol>
}}
This kind of config works with Subversion (the exact same exclusions prevent automated build) but since moving to TFS, the exclusions aren't working any more.

Any clues on what it takes to make this work?
Comments: ** Comment from web user: omicronbp **

would love to see this implemented if anyone is still working on this project.

NEW POST: Exception in sorcecontrol block

kerbou — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:06:47 GMT

I'm getting the same error... Does anybody have an idea on what's going on???

NEW POST: Configuring Projects Issue with TFS and CCNET

bigerock — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:55:32 GMT

Can someone show me an example of how to setup my ccnet.config file under the following scenario?

I'm getting so confused with so many "workingDirectory" nodes.

- I use TFS 2005, with VS 2008.
- I have a .sln file which contains various projects that are mapped (using an existing Workspace) to various places (for example: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyWebProject, and C:\Projects\MyOtherProject)
- TFS contains these projects at a root project level (ie , $/MyProject contains $/MyProject/MyWebProject and $/MyProject//MyOtherProject)

I'm failing to understand how CCNET gets the source code because it seems to just get the source code in the default WorkingDirectory and doesn't pay attention to any of my mappings.

Here's how it's set up....

<cruisecontrol>
<project name="01 MyProject continuous">
<triggers>
<intervalTrigger />
</triggers>
<sourcecontrol type="vsts" autoGetSource="true">
<server>http://itsflnt4:8080</server>
<project>$/MyProject</project>
<workspace>MyWorkspaceName</workspace>
<deleteWorkspace>false</deleteWorkspace>
</sourcecontrol>
<tasks>
<msbuild>
<executable>C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\MSBuild.exe</executable>
<projectFile>MySolution.sln</projectFile>
<buildArgs>/noconsolelogger /p:Configuration=Release /v:diag</buildArgs>
<targets>Build</targets>
<timeout>900</timeout>
<logger>c:\Program Files\CruiseControl.NET\server\Rodemeyer.MsBuildToCCNet.dll</logger>
</msbuild>
</tasks>
</project>
</cruisecontrol>

NEW POST: Labeling and detecting Modifications

martin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:35:13 GMT

Sorry guys - this thread had somehow escaped my attention.

What version of the plug-in are you using? I posted the following release back in November to work around a bug in the RTM release of TFS2008. http://www.codeplex.com/TFSCCNetPlugin/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1816. Your issues sounds very similar to the bug I thought I had fixed then.

NEW POST: Labeling and detecting Modifications

andrewmyhre — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:14:03 GMT

In the meantime I've solved the issue but changing the triggers tag to:

<triggers />

Also I moved it in the project config to ABOVE the source control tag. I don't really know yet whether it's made a difference but will add another reply to this thread if it does.

NEW POST: Labeling and detecting Modifications

andrewmyhre — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:55:00 GMT

The trigger setting is definitely not working for me either. My trigger is:

<triggers>
<intervalTrigger name="continuous" seconds="1800" buildCondition="ForceBuild" initialIntervalSeconds="30" />
</triggers>

It's still checking every 3 minutes and picking up the same single modification every time.

The CCNet server log says:

2008-03-20 09:52:12,420 project:DEBUG Checking Team Foundation Server for Modifications
2008-03-20 09:52:12,420 project:DEBUG From: 20/03/2008 09:49:21 - To: 20/03/2008 09:52:12
2008-03-20 09:52:13,170 project:DEBUG Found 1 modifications
2008-03-20 09:52:13,170 project:INFO 1 modification detected.
2008-03-20 09:52:13,170 project:INFO Building: IntervalTrigger triggered a build (IfModificationExists)

This only started happening after we upgraded from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 a few weeks ago.

COMMENTED ISSUE: TFS plugin does not work when running ccnet as a 64 bit process

BradWilson — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:50:41 GMT

I don't know exacly who owns the problem, but people will say that the "TFS plugin does not work" so here goes.

The TeamFoundation assemblies that the TFS Plug-in uses are marked as Win32 only. They will not load in a 64 bit process. The exception will say that Microsoft.TeamFundation.VersionControl.Client can not be loaded.

The workaround to to set the 32 bit flag on ccnet.exe/ccservice.exe like this:

corflags /32bit+ ccnet.exe

But it would be nice to atleast get a better errormessage so you know what is going on
Comments: ** Comment from web user: BradWilson **

IMO, the right fix for this is to stop using the TFS libraries and instead talk directly to the TFS web service APIs. The source control APIs are not overly complicated. This would also allow you to mainline the TFS plugin into the CCnet builds since it won't rely on any 3rd party APIs.

COMMENTED ISSUE: TFS plugin does not work when running ccnet as a 64 bit process

BHofmann — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:09:33 GMT

I'm having the same problem, but did not have corflags.exe on the server. I had to copy it from my Framework SDK folder (%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin).

Thank you very much for solving this for me.

NEW POST: Error using CC.Net with TFS - InvalidVersionSpecException error

martin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:27:11 GMT

This discussion has been copied to a work item. Click here to go to the work item and continue the discussion.

CREATED ISSUE: Need better error message if no access to project.

martin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:27:09 GMT

If the account that the CruiseControl service is running under does not have rights to a project (it could log into TFS, and had rights to other projects). Then the following rather unhelpful error is given:-

----------
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.InvalidVersionSpecException: 0 is not a valid changeset number. Please specify a number greater than 0.
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.ChangesetVersionSpec.ValidateNumber(Int32 changeset)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.ChangesetVersionSpec..ctor(Int32 changeset)
at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Sourcecontrol.Vsts.GetModifications(IIntegrationResult from, IIntegrationResult to) in C:\projects\opensource\ccnet\trunk\source\ccnet\ccnet.vsts.plugin\Vsts.cs:line 160
at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Sourcecontrol.QuietPeriod.GetModifications(ISourceControl sourceControl, IIntegrationResult lastBuild, IIntegrationResult thisBuild)
at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.IntegrationRunner.Integrate(IntegrationRequest request)
at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Project.Integrate(IntegrationRequest request)
at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.ProjectIntegrator.Integrate()
at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.ProjectIntegrator.Run()

---

We should give a better error message. In the meantime, the work-around is to give the CruiseControl.NET account rights to that project.

NEW POST: Error using CC.Net with TFS - InvalidVersionSpecException error

martin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:29 GMT

Thanks for the detailed report - will look to force a better error message here.

Cheers,

Martin.

NEW POST: Error using CC.Net with TFS - InvalidVersionSpecException error

bsorensen — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:53:42 GMT

This was indeed the case. The account we had the CruiseControl service running under did not have rights to that one project (it could log into TFS, and had rights to other projects). Adding the rights fixed the problem.

There is a bug here, though - the error message is very confusing.

NEW POST: Error using CC.Net with TFS - InvalidVersionSpecException error

bsorensen — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:53:38 GMT

NEW POST: Error using CC.Net with TFS - InvalidVersionSpecException error

bsorensen — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:43:53 GMT

I may have found the problem. We're using v1.3.2 of the plugin, and I compiled the source and ran some tests.

The GetModifications method works fine if I don't specify Username/Password/Domain (use my own credentials via Windows authentication). It also works fine with the service login against another TFS project. It fails with the service login against one TFS project. I think it's a rights issue; the only problem is that a confusing error message is generated. I'm checking with our TFS administrator to see if this is the case.

NEW POST: Error using CC.Net with TFS - InvalidVersionSpecException error

bsorensen — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:43:52 GMT

NEW POST: Error using CC.Net with TFS - InvalidVersionSpecException error

bsorensen — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:25:23 GMT

I am getting exactly the same error (down to the line number in the stack trace). As with Omid, this occurs on some projects and not on others.

My suspicion is that this may be related to TFS migration. A project that has the issue was migrated from a previous TFS server, and one that does not have the issue was created on this server. The following article applies to 2008 (we're still on TFS 2005), but may be related: http://www.codeplex.com/tfstotfsmigration/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=3279

This is a showstopper; any help would be appreciated. TIA!

NEW POST: Error using CC.Net with TFS - InvalidVersionSpecException error

bsorensen — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:25:21 GMT

COMMENTED ISSUE: Filtered Source Control not working

aledeniz — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:12:21 GMT

Have been trying to get the filtered source control block working with TFS but to no avail. Downloaded the latest source code and found this bit of source:

if (item.ItemType == ItemType.File)
{
// split into foldername and filename
int lastSlash = item.ServerItem.LastIndexOf('/');
modification.FileName = item.ServerItem.Substring(lastSlash + 1);
// patch to the following line submitted by Ralf Kretzschmar.
modification.FolderName = item.ServerItem.Substring(0, lastSlash);
}

but according to the MS documentation the ServerItem property contains just the servername, not the path of the changed object. Is this a bug or am I missing something here?
Comments: ** Comment from web user: aledeniz **

This works for me since months (1.3.2):

<sourcecontrol type="filtered">
<sourceControlProvider type="vsts" autoGetSource="true">
<server>http://mine:8080</server>
<project>$/mine/trunk</project>
<workingDirectory>C:\dev\mine\Checkout\trunk</workingDirectory>
<username>administrator</username>
<password>mine</password>
<domain>mine</domain>
<workspace>mine</workspace>
</sourceControlProvider>
<exclusionFilters>
<pathFilter>
<pattern>**/some/path/**</pattern>
</pathFilter>
</exclusionFilters>
</sourcecontrol>