Good resources to learn about MSBuild and Continuous integration with TFS

Question

I am relatively new to MSBuild and am looking out for good resources to learn more about MSBuild and CI with TFS. Specifically I am looking out for the following specific tasks

• Take latest from TFS whenever a checkin happens
• Build the solution
• Run the code analysis
• Run Unit test cases
• On success deploy the project to the drop location
• Label the build

I am not looking for any reference to any books. Online resources will be good. I did google for this, but was not able to get and end-to-end tasks for this.

Any pointers in this direction will be appreciated.

Edit: Also some good resources to custom MSBuild task will be helpful.

Answer 1

This is where I first started.

Edit

I don't mean to be flippant but MSDN really is a good starting place for MSBuild and most things .NET related.

Answer 2

In fact, everything that you describe is part of the standard TFS Build process. At least if you use MSTest for unit testing. Integration with other unit testing frameworks is also possible.

A good starting point would be MSDN, as it is quite exhaustive: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252495.aspx

TFS2008 is very pleasant to work with in regard to Team Builds. The builds can be set up through Visual Studio itself. It was a different and a lot uglier story in TFS2005 :)

You can find a lot resources on the web if you hit any obstacles during the setup. A lot of people are using it and I never had any troubles finding blog/forum posts discussing even the most obscure issues.