Comments on Simon Hart: Anyone actually using Workflow for builds in Team ...

John, It's the same for us where I work. Alth...

2011-10-26T16:30:54.983Z

John,

It's the same for us where I work. Although I work as a consultant and work for different customers, what you said is true in all projects that I have encountered that require the use of TFS to manage their ALM process.

Although with Workflow you can still make use of MSBuild as I mentioned, but I don't see the benefit of this.

Simon

We migrated to TFS 2010 a few months back and beca...

2011-09-05T18:49:52.883Z

We migrated to TFS 2010 a few months back and because we had old scripts written in MSBuild we stuck with it.

Perhaps in the future my company will consider migrating to Windows Workflow if there is a business case for it.

Kyndig, I found when I used Workflow for Team Bui...

2011-06-03T06:20:14.113Z

Kyndig,

I found when I used Workflow for Team Build I found that I was editing the XAML code more than actually using the designer.

Regarding the point about activities, I agree I think writing activities is no different from writing custom tasks in MSBuild.

In the future when there is a larger community using Workflow for Team Build we will see many useful activities much like today with custom tasks and MSBuild.

Simon

I have used them before on pure workflow at a prev...

2011-06-01T02:51:40.146Z

I have used them before on pure workflow at a previous job. I am currently setting one up at my current job but am required to create a few custom activities to support the current build process as I have to deal with VB6 projects and a very custom deployment setup. I like working with the Workflow process much more than the previous msbuild scripts because it is easier to configure, IMO, because you can visually see what is going to happen. Writing custom tasks/activities is about the same in either method.