Does TFS have something like CCTray for creating notifications?

Question

To control cruise control, I have a CCTray that sits in my taskbar and lets me know if builds or failures are occurring.

Does TFS have something like this?

Answer 1

Or Start → All Programs → Visual Studio 2010 → Team Foundation Server Tools → Release Notifications

Personally, I find the Build Notifications app pretty awful. It is slow for one. I find it best to just create email alerts when something happens to the build. They are much larger in real time.

Change I just noticed that you are using TFS 2008. I do not have it to check, but it should be somewhere in the same place.

Change 2 . I realized that the tool comes with TFS Power Tools. Find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=15836

Answer 2

UPDATE 2017-06-21: CatLight no longer has a free version if it is not used with an open source project. Details: https://catlight.io/editions

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Visual Studio has an application called Build Notifications. This tool allows you to display (close to) the real-time status of the current state of the assembly in one or more assemblies on the TFS server. However, it only works with XAML basics, which are deprecated in favor of vNext assemblies.

There is a third-party tool that collects statuses, notifications, error monitoring and much more for TFS (both for building XAML and vNext) and other systems (such as Jenkins). It is called CatLight , and there is a free version that works with 10 lines - https://catlight.io/editions .

It is configured similarly to CCTray and is very easy to use.

Here are some screenshots:

Answer 3

AnyStatus is another tool that supports several CI platforms, including Visual Studio vNext. It comes as a plug-in for Visual Studio, as well as a program for Windows (with a taskbar icon and notifications).

See more details here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/316829/

Answer 4

Here you can find the notification application "C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0 \ Common7 \ IDE \ BuildNotification.exe"

Answer 5

siren of shame <- and this too, I'm not a big fan of the default application, I found that it is not ok with what is actually happening.

Answer 6

I found something a lot better than the build notification tool, and on Codeplex, this is what is called Community TFS Build Manager. It works, it works fast and gives you much more information.

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