Copy Build Definition From Project "A" to Project b” Using TFS API

This article will help when you want to copy an existing Build definition from Project A to Project B.

As shown in the following figure:



The following is the piece of code to perform the task to copy a Build Definition from one project to another project.

1. Add the following references to your project:
   
   You can get these references from your system at the location: <C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ReferenceAssemblies\v2.0>.
   
   
    
2. The piece of code to perform the copy of the builds definition:
    

   using System;
   using System.Collections.Generic;
   using System.Linq;
   using System.Text;
   //Add this NameSpace to work on TFS api
   using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;
   using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client;
   //Author: Md. Jawed
   //Dated: 01.05.2010
   //Discription:Programmaticaly copy Build Definition from one project to another project using TFS API.
   namespace TFSAPI
   {
       class Program
       {
           /// <summary>
           /// This Main would copy the Build definition from project "A" to Project "B" with in the same TFS.
           ///</summary>
           ///<param name="args"></param>
           staticvoid Main(string[] args)
           {
               try
               {
                   //Connect to your TFS
                   var server =TfsTeamProjectCollectionFactory.GetTeamProjectCollection(new
   Uri("http://tfs:8080/tfs/defaultcollection"));
                   IBuildServer buildServer = server.GetService<IBuildServer>();
                   //Get all Build from ALM project
                   var buildDetails = buildServer.QueryBuildDefinitions("Project1");
                   foreach (var build in buildDetails)
                   {
                       if (build.Name=="DemoBuildDefinition")
                       {
                           var buildDefinition = buildServer.CreateBuildDefinition("Project2");
                           buildDefinition.Name = "Copy of " + build.Name;
                           buildDefinition.BuildController = build.BuildController;
                           // This finds the template to use
                           buildDefinition.Process = buildServer.QueryProcessTemplates("Project2")[0];
                           buildDefinition.ProcessParameters = build.ProcessParameters;
                           buildDefinition.Save();
                       }//end of if block
                   }//end of for each loop
               }//end of try
               catch (Exception exception)
               {
                   Console.WriteLine(exception.Message);

               }//end of catch
           }//end of main
       }//end of class
   }//end of name space