want to adopt TFS without build management

Question

I have a small team of 4 developers. We have been using VSS with a single unbranched repo (decision of predecessor).

We have been playing with TFS cloud in hopes of creating a better solution. There is much to like about TFS cloud including agile tools.

But the enforced build management would be an impediment to our small agile team. We do quick builds to test mini features.

From what we've seen, TFS cloud cannot be used without build management. As an alternative, I have been reading and searching for information on local TFS Server. Here I cannot find an answer to my most basic question: Can we use TFS for source control without using its build management?

I would like to continue to build directly from our "build" machine without queuing builds remotely.

Answer 1

You don't have to use TFS Builds if you don't want. You can use TFS for just source control and use anything you want for Builds. For example, lots of people use TFS for source code repository and Team City, Cruise Control, Hudson, etc for their build servers.