Is there a way to change the poll interval for the Build Notification tray application for TFS 2010?
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A:
Ironically, the code for the Build Notifcation tray application does support changing the poll interval by means of a parameterable constructor, but the root code which starts the polling off hard codes the value.
If you really want to change the poll interval, then you could theoretically create a replacement Main() procedure, and re write the launch of the form and polling timer in order to be able to pass in your own configurable poll interval, but I think that that would probably not be worth the time & investment.
Antony Gibbs
2010-06-22 13:34:52
Thank you. This really sucks! The Build notification tray is very useful but works badly when doing frequent check-ins and fast CI builds.
Hakan Forss
2010-06-23 12:13:14
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Hi Hankan,
Seem to keep running into you recently! I have written a blog about how you can change the default 2 minute notification delay.
And I agree that it deeply sucks. When pressed Microsoft told us that the 2 minute delay was added to ensure that enterprise level TFS environments don't get swamped with notifications. However, we estimate that only a very small percentage would qualify as "Enterprise" level. So we alll suffer for the sake of the few.
Crispin.
Crispin
2010-07-06 11:31:45
Thank you Crispin, but will that really affect the Build Notifcation tray application?
Hakan Forss
2010-07-07 11:59:00