TFS Build Definition - Can you add this to source control?

I w开发者_开发知识库ould like to add my Build Definitions to TFS Source Control. Is there anyway to do this?

Not really, no. If you're trying to track changes to your build definitions, you can use a couple of new commands in the latest releast of the Team Foundation Power Tools. The first compares two build definitions:

tfpt builddefinition /diff 

This one exports a build definition's configuration to a text format, which you could then check into version control.

tfpt builddefinition /dump

Another option via powershell

https://gist.github.com/jstangroome/6747950

which basically uses c# types so should be easy enough to make into a linqpad or c# console app (or winforms or wpf)

used assemblies

• Microsoft.TeamFoundation
• Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client
• Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\ReferenceAssemblies\v2.0\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.dll