Building Custom VSTS Build Tasks

The new VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services - formerly Visual Studio Online) task based build system is absolutely fantastic (also in TFS 2015 on premise). I've been slowly and surely falling in love with it in the realization that is...

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Build Server Error with Multi-Threading: Access is denied.

  Most recently and in the past I have encountered this error in running build definitions on TFS 2012: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets (3540): Unable to copy file "C:\BLD\4\Project\Name\Binaries\BinaryFile.dll". Access to the path ' C:\BLD\4\Project\Name\Binaries\BinaryFile.dll is denied. Which is pretty crazy since, the...

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