Team Build notification tool

< this tool has been updated check out here >

As we go on developing the product we frequently feel strong about doing new things around our product either to increase customer value, easy of use, flexibility or just because it can be done. Most of these are either too late to be included in the product or does not meet the criteria. Either way they serve as great samples and keep us busy.

One great example would be RSS feed for Team Foundation version control checkin notifications. Check out https://blogs.msdn.com/jefflu/archive/2005/07/27/443900.aspx. So now in addition to getting emails, you can also subscribe for RSS feeds.

Similarly for Team Build I have written a tool that monitors Team Build events and shows notifications with link to the Web UI of the Build. Currently it has the following feature

• The tool can monitor any number of Team Foundation servers and is not tied to a single server.
• It works over web services and does not need any VS installation to run. So this can be installed on your home PC to monitor if the build you fired before leaving office succedded or failed.
• It has links to the Web UI, so you can also open the detailed report in the browser and see the status.
• Poling frequency can be changed at two levels. Polling for list of builds from server and polling individual builds.
• It shows cool Office 2003 like notification over the system tray and also animated icons in the tray.

I plan to add additional features like listing all builds on the server and allowing user to specify different user name to connect to the server (required if running from home PC).

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 15, 2005
  John Lawrence - IE 7.0 and Team Foundation? Not 100% just yet
  
  John talks about some issues with Team...

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2005
  Do you plan to post the source code for this?
  
  

• Anonymous
  April 21, 2006
  &amp;lt;Update: After some complains that it is difficult to cut paste code out of the blog, I have zipped...

• Anonymous
  July 26, 2006
  Where's the link to download this tool???
  Or email it to me (no ZIP, gmail doesn't like those) to kzu dot net at gmail dot com

• Anonymous
  August 09, 2006
  If you'd like to be more in touch with your Team Foundation Build server using something other than Team...

• Anonymous
  August 09, 2006
  Abhinaba Basu&amp;nbsp;posted his second Team Build power toy build notification app.&amp;nbsp; Previously he...

• Anonymous
  August 10, 2006
  [Team Build Ticker via Rob Caron&amp;rsquo;s Blog] I had blogged earlier about the BuildTicker tool which

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2006
  Os presento una util&iacute;sima herramienta que permite recibir notificaciones tipo Outlook sobre el

• Anonymous
  August 09, 2007
  &lt;Update: After some complains that it is difficult to cut paste code out of the blog, I have zipped

• Anonymous
  October 11, 2007
  Hi, does it run with TFS2008 ? Ever tested with it ? Thx, Messaoud

• Anonymous
  October 27, 2007
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