Inside the Microsoft® Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build

Improved Control over Build Deletion

In Team Build 2008 when a build is deleted, everything relating to the build is deleted, leaving almost no trace that it ever existed. While this is thorough it is not always desirable and can severely hamper the ability to recreate builds that have been deleted.

Team Build 2010 improves this in a couple of ways. First, when manually deleting a build you are prompted to select what should be deleted as shown in Figure C-12.

Figure C-12. Manually deleting a build

Second, as shown in Figure C-13, you can specify what is to be deleted for each build outcome in the retention policy and these can differ between triggered ...