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October 7th: Customizing the Build Process with TFS 2010 Build and Workflow Foundation

Date: October 7th, 2010
Time: 19:00 CEST (17:00 UTC without summertime)
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In TFS 2010, the automated build infrastructure has been revamped to use Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) instead of MSBuild. In this session, we will explore how to customize the default build process template and how to leverage multiple aspects of the workflow implementation for TFS 2010 Build.

We will cover:
• Explore the basics of Windows Workflow Foundation as it is used in TFS 2010 Build
• Review the high-level parts of the default build process template in TFS 2010 Build
• Adding new functionality to the build process using out of the box workflow activities
• Creating variables and process parameters that can be exposed to the end user
• Thoughts about designing & architecting your build process for reuse
• Building a custom activity for use in the build process template
• Deploying the custom activity to all of the build servers in the build farm

Presenter: Ed Blankenship
Ed is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Consultant with Notion Solutions and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Visual Studio ALM & Team Foundation Server.
Ed was voted as the Microsoft MVP of the Year (Visual Studio ALM, TFS) for 2010 by his peers.
His expertise is in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server in which he has been actively using, managing, and implementing for nearly five years since the beginning of those products in 2005. He has been awarded since 2008 as a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio ALM, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System.
As an ALM Consultant, he assists organizations with improving their development lifecycle by suggesting improvements to their processes and implementing Application Lifecycle Management tools to assist with that improvement. By using Visual Studio ALM and Team Foundation Server, customers can immediately see value from their improvements.
Ed was previously the Release Engineering Manager at Infragistics where he led a multi-year TFS & Visual Studio Team System implementation to improve the development process lifecycle.
Ed is the lead author of the Wrox Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 book, has been a technical editor for the Wrox Silverlight 1.0, Silverlight 2 Developer's Guide, Silverlight 3 Programmer's Reference, and Silverlight 2 Bible books, author of numerous articles, and has spoken at various user groups, events, radio shows, and conferences.
You can find Ed blogging at http://www.edsquared.com , tweeting at @EdBlankenship ( http://www.twitter.com/edblankenship ), and more information on his LinkedIn profile page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/edblankenship . His MVP profile is also available at https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/ed.blankenship .

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