Calling FB from TFS builds - error

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Hi,

I've been using this page: https://www.finalbuilder.com/resour...erver-2013 to setup calling FinalBuilder from TFS.

I want to do this because in my opinion FB is far superior to TFS in terms of flexibility of builds.

However, the build always fails with the following error because the workspace that TFS creates has all files marked as read-only:

  • Error saving project information: C:\Builds\src\2DViewer\Build Resources\FinalBuilder\2D Viewer.fbpInf
  • Error saving project info file : C:\Builds\src\2DViewer\Build Resources\FinalBuilder\2D Viewer.fbpInf
  • Access is denied

How can I get around this issue? I don't think that I can tell TFS to not mark everything as read-only sadly, although I do want this as our builds update assemblyinfo.cs files and I want to be able to check these back in.

Thanks in advance

Mark

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Hi Mark,

Sadly you will have to check these files out within the build process before running FinalBuilder.

I was looking at doing this in the FinalBuilder activity itself, however it required a great deal of “working out” if the FinalBuilder project was in source control and then performing the correct checkout/check-in operation for said repository. So something that we will be looking at in the future definitely.

In the meantime simply check out all the *.fbpInf files you wish to store back with the FinalBuilder project. Then check them back in after the FinalBuilder project has run.

Also you could simply not include the *.fbpInf files in the repository if the script doesn’t have persistent variables, or project settings you wish to keep between runs.

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Jason - that makes sense - thanks!