Note: There are alternative ways to build VB6 applications not using this activity that are documented in other blog posts
Before you can make use of any of the TFS 2010 community build activities you have to make sure they are available for the build system and on your development PC. Instructions for this process can be found in the ALM Rangers build guide or in the StyleCop page of this wiki. This page assumes the VB6 activity is available in the developers build process workflow toolbox.
Installing VB6
As this activity is a wrapper for the VB6 command line tool, VB6 must be installed on all TFS Build Agent PCs that could run the workflow.
Add the activity to the workflow
The VB6 activity should added to the workflow. Assuming you are modifying the default build process template, then the key is to replace the MSBuild activity in the ‘Compile the Project’ sequence, as shown below.
