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Integration with Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Use the Visual Studio IDE to effectively manage, compile, and build Visual Studio and InstallShield projects in a single environment.

More software development teams are adopting “software production engineering” as a best practice to automate their build and release processes. To help, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a tool that enables Visual Studio developers to manage source code integration and automatic software builds. TFS includes a build server which can be used by developers to do a complete Visual Studio solution build of the most recent bits contained in source control.

InstallShield includes support for Team Foundation Server. Now you can use the familiar Visual Studio IDE to effectively manage your Visual Studio and InstallShield projects in a single environment. You can do continuous product and installation builds with minimum effort.

You can use Team Foundation Build to compile and build InstallShield projects along with Visual Studio solutions. Using Team Explorer you can also configure, schedule, and queue builds for InstallShield projects together with Visual Studio solution builds.