What if you do not have a separate TFS build server? What if you still want to try and do some sort of automated build – but do not have a dedicated TFS server to utilize?

Use your desktop as the build server

When you get down to the details, the only thing the TFS server would have done for you is:

1. Get the latest source code – using TF.exe
2. Build it using msbuild.exe–  with possibly some optional parameters passed in.

You can accomplish both these easily on your own desktop.

I noticed that someone had already written a very descriptive post on this topic – so I am just going to point to their post .

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