Reminders for Continuous build for SharePoint projects in Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Based on this MSDN article How to Build SharePoint Projects with TFS Team Build I setup the build machine. When doing so and tested it on my current SharePoint 2010 project I found some issues. As a reminder-to-self here some notes:

Deployment of DLLs to GAC

Some dll’s should be deployed to GAC. Use gacutil (of the .NET 4 framework) to do this, using a .NET 2 or 3.5 version doesn’t work.

- Download and install the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4
- Gacutil location for 64bit systems is C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\

SharePoint DLLs

Copy all SharePoint dll’s from the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ISAPI\
When your SharePoint project references Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, also copy System.Web.DataVisualization.dll (.NET 3.5). It location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Chart Controls\Assemblies\ This is because the publishing assembly references the DataVisualization assembly.

Updating SharePoint 2010

When installing cumulative or Service Packs on SharePoint 2010, you need to update the dll’s on your build server to keep them aligned.