--- title: "MSBuild SideKick - Fixed to use with Team Build" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/19/msbuild-sidekick-fixed-to-use-with-team-build.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/19/msbuild-sidekick-fixed-to-use-with-team-build.html" published: "2006-06-19T19:55:00" updated: "2006-06-19T19:55:00" tags: ["MSBuild", "Team System", "Visual Studio"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Update : Downloading the latest version of hte Sidekick tool fixes the problem mentioned here. See this comment from Matan: \"Please download the latest version of the MSBuild Sidekick - that should take care of the…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # MSBuild SideKick - Fixed to use with Team Build By Roy Osherove June 19, 2006 In [MSBuild](https://osherove.com/blog/category/msbuild), [Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-system), [Visual Studio](https://osherove.com/blog/category/visual-studio) **Historical article** · Originally published June 19, 2006; technical details may be outdated. **Update**: Downloading the latest version of hte Sidekick tool fixes the problem mentioned here. See this comment from Matan: _"Please download the latest version of the MSBuild Sidekick - that should take care of the non-MSBuild parts not being saved problem. We've released a patch for it less than a day after the release. Regarding the absence of Team Build elements from the UI, please note my post about schema-support. This is a known issue and we are working hard to solve it as soon as possible. "_ When I [first found out about MSBuild SideKick](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/7/news-testdriven-sidekick-expression-evaluators-and-security.html), I was excited. I thought that finally there's a slim chance that I won't have to edit dreaded XML files, and instead use a point and click interface, like god intended. I even [pointed](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/11/got-an-msbuild-sikdekick-wish-post-it-on-matans-blog.html) to [Matan's Blog](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tfsidekicks/), which is one of the guys behind this tool so you can send comments his way. I then tried to edit a TFSBuild.Proj file using MSBuild Sidekick. It seemed to work well except for one major problem: Sidekick only uses the [MSBuild Schema](http://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/archive/2005/11/04/489212.aspx) for the various properties inside it, so it leaves out essential properties that Team Build needs like the Build Machine Name. So, when you save the file through Sidekick,  and then check it in and try to run the build through the Team Explorer Addin, you get a nice error message that states that the Build Machine Name is missing from the build type file. So much for helpful. Can [someone](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tfsidekicks/) **please** pick up the glove on this? It's already dirty, tainted and muddy, and it will be trampled by people jumping up and down with ange if someone doesn't pick that glove up pretty soon (that someone just might be me!) ## More in MSBuild [All posts in MSBuild](https://osherove.com/blog/category/msbuild) - Dec 12, 2012 ### [When they tell me I have to use MSBuild to automate our CI Process](https://osherove.com/blog/2012/12/12/when-they-tell-me-i-have-to-use-msbuild-to-automate-our-ci-p.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. 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