Will the FB Build task (vsoft.finalbuilder-extension-1.0.19.vsix) from the Marketplace work with TFS2015 Update1? I can’t seem to find the same place to install it as TFS2017 has the Manage Extensions page. Perhaps this will only work with TFS2015 Update3 and TFS2017? If it does work with TFS2015 Update1, can you provide instructions on how to install it so I can start using it in my TFSBuilds? Thanks.
Hi Jerrad Peterson,
The VSO action will work with Update 1, the trick is that you will need to install this manually yourself using the tfx-cli tool. I have written up a blog post on how to achieve this.
https://www.finalbuilder.com/resources/blogs/postid/736/finalbuilder-vso-task
You can also look at the github page for the action itself. This has details in the wiki on how to manually load the finalbuilder task in to on-prem tfs.
https://github.com/VSoftTechnologies/FinalBuilder-VSO
I get an error when I run the ‘tfx build tasks upload./FinalBuilder --overwrite’ command. It says the minimum TFS build agent version is 1.90.0, but I have 1.89.1.
I got that 1.89.1 version directly from my TFS 2015 Update1 install. Other than upgrading TFS, is there a way to get around this?
Hi Jerrad Peterson,
I will have to downgrade the minimum agent number to TFS2015 RTM so that should cover you now. The new version is available at:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsoft.finalbuilder-extension
That worked. Thanks!
For anyone else following this…When installing it manually into TFS2015 Update1 with the tfx-cli tool, update the Git Repo with this FB task. From the “tasks” directory of that git repo, run: ‘tfx build tasks upload --task-path ./FinalBuilder --overwrite’
It then works with the 1.89.1 build agent.