Setting up Continuous Integration for the code in a project is a common procedure followed in projects. The Continuous Integration (CI) becomes more important in development projects using Agile methodology or for geographically distributed teams. You can create build definitions in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 to build your codebase. But the important question is – how do you setup CI for SharePoint projects? Because by TFS 2010 build agent will not be able to compile SharePoint code. This is because SharePoint code refers to the SharePoint assemblies. And these SharePoint assemblies are not available in the server where the TFS is configured. You could ask why don’t we just install SharePoint 2010 on the same server as TFS 2010. Installing SharePoint 2010 on TFS 2010 server is not recommended for performance reasons obviously. So, the easiest way to successfully compiling SharePoint 2010 code on TFS 2010 server is to copy the SharePoint 2010 assemblies on the build server.