If you can't wait for Team Build 2008...

This post was originally published here.

I just heard of a new project on CodePlex, TfsBuildLab.  It looks like it performs a lot of the build features Orcas will provide, and it lets you do it with Team Build 2005:

• Continuous integration builds
• Scheduled builds
• Build queuing
• Build cleanup/retention policies
• Event notifications

The TfsBuildLab project is broken into 4 separate components:

• Database
• Houses the scheduling and queuing data
• Service
• Queues builds
• Executes manual builds
• Executes scheduled builds
• Admin client
• Configures build schedules, etc.
• Notification client
• Notifies clients of build status, similar to CCTray

Builds are still executed by Team Build, but TfsBuildLab puts a layer on top of Team Build to provide the extra functionality.  This looks like a nice interim solution until Team Build 2008 releases early next year.