The plug-in provides access to Management Console features from
within Microsoft Visual Studio IDEs. This release supports Visual Studio 2003
and Visual Studio 2005.
You can access the following features via the Visual Studio plug-in:
- Access one or more Management Consoles to view preconfigured projects
(as provided by the security settings relevant to your Build Forge login).
- View build logs.
- Launch builds.
- View status of running builds.
- Run pre-flight builds: builds that use files from the developer's
local workspace in a remote build configured through the management console.
This allows you to test code changes against the actual production build process
without checking them in, or see how your local code performs in a test, integration,
or release build, without impacting others.
Using the Plug-in
After you install the plug-in, start Microsoft Visual Studio. The Console
Explorer, Build Info, and Build
Log windows appear.
- To access Management Consoles to launch jobs and view project logs, use
the plug-in's windows inside Visual Studio. Configure access to a console
in the Console Explorer; and view jobs and logs in
the Build Info and Build Log windows.
For more information on using Frequency, see the help provided with the plug-in.
- To run pre-flight builds, within your IDE configure your project
by selecting your project and right-clicking. Select BuildForge
Project Settings from the pop-up menu. For more information, see
the help provided with the plug-in.