Comments on: Release: Build Clean-up Service for Team Foundation Server

By: Deepcode Blog : Tool to clean up TFS builds

Deepcode Blog : Tool to clean up TFS builds — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:19:11 +0000

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By: Niels Tindbæk

Niels Tindbæk — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:16:32 +0000

Hi,

Doesnt it delete the rows in the list of builds?

My list is soo slow because there are so many rows, and I was hoping your tool would cleanup the list as well?

Please reply to my email….

/Niels

By: Tim Dallmann

Tim Dallmann — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:34:28 +0000

Oh yes - I’ve deleted many team projects.
What service calls are you making in order to do the cleanup? Any chance I can see some of the source, as a way to help me identify what’s wrong with my environment?
BTW - if you email me when you respond, I won’t need to keep checking here every couple of days. Can you do that?

By: Mitch Denny

Mitch Denny — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:06:31 +0000

Hi Tim,

Seems to be some kind of corruption in the system somewhere - I wouldn’t expect that error. Have you recently deleted a Team Project?

By: Tim Dallmann

Tim Dallmann — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:45:07 +0000

Hi Mitch,

I’ve had this service running several months now without a hitch. (great job - thanks!) Lately however, I’ve noticed event log errors:

The following exception occured while trying to perform a build clean-up:
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: TF50322: Unrecognized project name.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Proxy.BuildStore.GetListOfBuilds(String teamProject, String buildType)
at BuildCleanup.BuildCleanupService.GetBuilds(Project project)
at BuildCleanup.BuildCleanupService.GetAllBuilds()
at BuildCleanup.BuildCleanupService.m_Timer_Elapsed(Object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)

My assumption is that you are using the ListAllProjects service call and then calling BuildStore.GetListOfBuilds for each one returned. I did this manually and received no errors from either web service. So I can’t figure out why this is happening. Any ideas?

By: Mitch Denny

Mitch Denny — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:59:59 +0000

Hi Howard,
Just in the process of moving some data around. should be available within a week.

By: Howard

Howard — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:38:21 +0000

Hi Mitch,

I’ve been wanting to try this out, but the download link isn’t working…

By: Mitch Denny

Mitch Denny — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:12:30 +0000

Hi Adam,

At present the build clean-up service doesn’t support this so you would need to implement it yourself using the TFS SDK.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:09:27 +0000

Hi Mitch,

I am trying to run the cleanup process to leave the last 2 successful builds and possibly 1 last failed one to determine changes required for the subsequent successful build. Is there a way to remove builds from a certain time frame only? We are carrying out hourly builds and would like to retain the last 2 successful builds at any point of the day. Any suggestions?

By: Mitch Denny

Mitch Denny — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:59:09 +0000

Hi Sarabjit,

Did you reboot the service?