how to build only check in code Files and How to get only check in code artifacts in tfs for that build?

Question

Actually first code is built and deployed after some updates developer changed the code and check-in the files now I want to build that files or folder and get that files artefact in drop folder? as well as how to deploy those files? in Tfs 2017 and it will automatically build only check-in files.

Answer 1

What you would like is to have an incremental build. When you add a Visual Studio Build / MSBuild task to build the project, just uncheck the Clean option. Thus it will sync the source and only get the changed files from the second time to build. See Build task Arguments for details.

Clean Option : Set to False if you want to make this an incremental build. This setting might reduce your build time, especially if your codebase is large. This option has no practical effect unless you also set Clean repository to False.

Set to True if you want to rebuild all the code in the code projects. This is equivalent to the MSBuild /target:clean argument.

However for artifacts, TFS always delivered all files - changed and unchanged.

It does copy all of the project output (subsequent projects that depend on it may depend on these assemblies and files being there).

This causes incremental builds to be much faster, but it doesn't "only deliver the changed files". It always delivers all files whether they are changed or unchanged.

You could take a look at jessehouwing's reply in this question about this part: Incremental Builds issue in Team Foundation Server