My battle with TFS 2010 Custom Activity (2)

So how does MSBuild activity works in the TFS 2010 build template. For that we need to have a closer look at the MSBuild activity.

See the following. I have highlighted the most important piece of information. The "OutDir" is the directory where the binaries are copied once a project has build successfully.

If this property is set to empty, the build output of a project will remain in the respective "bin" folder of each project (bin\Build configuration).

Therefore the first step is to set "OutDir" property to empty string.

The next step is to understand how the build process works.

We now need to look at the "Build Definition" process properties. (next post)