Starting Team Foundation Build

Question

I recently switched to TFS 2010 and I want to start using Team Foundation Build to automate the build process for my application. I need some good resources (blogs, articles, books) on this topic.

Answer 1

To install build server use the latest version of the Installation Guide for your TFS version (you should have this from the install).

TFS team blogs include the following (pulled from a .opml hence XML fragment):

<outline type="rss" title="Martin Woodward" description="" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MartinWoodward" htmlUrl="http://www.woodwardweb.com/" />
<outline type="rss" title="granth's blog" description="Program Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server (TFS)" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="Ozzie Rules Blogging (Charles Sterling: MS VSTS Community Lead)" description="Charles Sterling's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="Team Foundation's WebLog" description="Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/team_foundation/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/team_foundation/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="Version Control Server Team" description="Version Control - Team Foundation Server - Visual Studio North Carolina" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/tfsvcs/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/tfsvcs/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="Jeff Beehler (VSTS Lead Pgm Mgr)" description="" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="Rob Caron's Blog - A Team System Nexus" description="Developer-related topics and other stuff." xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="bharry's WebLog" description="Everything you want to know about Visual Studio ALM and Farming" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="Buck Hodges (Team Foundation Server)" description="Visual Studio ALM (VSTS) - Team Foundation Server - Team Build - Web Access - Version Control - Admin & Ops" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="Mario Rodriguez (PM TFS VCS)" description="" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/mrod/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/mrod/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="James Manning's blog" description="Team Foundation Server + PowerShell = Happiness" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="Michal Malecki (Version Control Client Dev)" description="" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/michalma/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/michalma/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="Aaron Hallberg (Team Build: Build Automation)" description="Team Build (Build Automation) - Visual Studio North Carolina" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronhallberg/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronhallberg/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="TFS Version Control and VS Integration" description="" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/benryan/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/benryan/default.aspx" />
<outline type="rss" title="Stephanie Saad's Weblog" description="" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/atom.xml" htmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/default.aspx" />

Answer 2

If you are after Team Foundation Build for TFS 2010, then take a look at the following chapter that I wrote for the book Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010.

Chapter 21: Team Foundation Build.

Otherwise the blogs that Richard points to are an excellent resource. Also the following book is very good for Team Foundation Build prior to TFS 2010

Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build