nightly builds/svn/asp.net

Izi · 7 Sep 2010 at 21:33

i am looking for some software that can do nightly builds of my svn projects. they are all .net/c#/web projects.

if possible could they be built and put in a directory? also email alerts for errors?

BlackDragon · 7 Sep 2010 at 22:35

You could write ant scripts that extract the svn projects and build them. The job can be scheduled via a scheduled task.

Yakyb · 8 Sep 2010 at 00:08

msbuild?

sparkey196 · 8 Sep 2010 at 00:45

cruisecontrol .net

Xelene · 8 Sep 2010 at 08:45

windows scripting host too.

Izi · 8 Sep 2010 at 13:23

sparkey196 said:
cruisecontrol .net

cheers

Haircut · 8 Sep 2010 at 18:52

We've been using TeamCity at work recently and have found it to be very good.
http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

The full version is paid for, but they do a free version allowing up to 20 users and 20 different build configurations so if you won't go over that it's worth looking at.

Xelene · 8 Sep 2010 at 19:11

Haircut said:
We've been using TeamCity at work recently and have found it to be very good.
http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

The full version is paid for, but they do a free version allowing up to 20 users and 20 different build configurations so if you won't go over that it's worth looking at.

We use a bunch of Ant scripts, shelling out to stuff like JMeter. Didn't have the budget (i.e. any budget) for this kind of product. Shame really, it saves a lot of man hours.

Mr^B · 8 Sep 2010 at 22:07

Hudson or CruiseControl.Net, and probably some nant scripts in there too.

http://hudson-ci.org/
http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET
http://nant.sourceforge.net/

Both offer timed builds with the option to notify via email on success/failure, as well as built-in support for metrics (NDepend, NCover) and unit tests (NUnit).

Been using CC.Net for ages, recently swapped to Hudson as it's much easier to configure, and has a Chuck Norris plugin.

Dj_Jestar · 9 Sep 2010 at 00:22

We use Hudson, not personally used CruiseControl, but colleagues prefer Hudson.

We also have the chuck norris plugin

It's also easy to use an svn-hook so that builds are triggered when committed.

We've got a multitude of plugins installed, fxcop, stylecop, NDepend, NCover, blah blah..

Izi · 9 Sep 2010 at 10:34

I assume hudson runs under windows OK in a java servlet ?

I only spent 20 mins looking at cruisecontrol but did seem like an awful lot of config.

edit: a tiny bit of reading and yes it can

Izi · 9 Sep 2010 at 11:18

Wow hudson was an easy setup - thanks for the tip.

Izi · 9 Sep 2010 at 17:30

does anyone know a way to publish thr project after it has been build to a directory on the same machine?

Dj_Jestar · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:31

a.k.a. deploy to a given folder?

Use MSDeploy in a build step on Hudson.

Izi · 13 Sep 2010 at 20:39

Dj_Jestar said:
a.k.a. deploy to a given folder?

Use MSDeploy in a build step on Hudson.

trying to find how to use MSDeploy, can you point me in the right direction?

thanks for help!

Dj_Jestar · 14 Sep 2010 at 10:04

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/346/web-deploy/

Izi · 14 Sep 2010 at 15:09

Dj_Jestar said:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/346/web-deploy/

yeh I Googled that but I couldn't see where web deploy could take an SLN, build then publish to file system.

It seems its more geared towards syncing IIS and deployment for IIS only?

Thanks for your help.

Dj_Jestar · 14 Sep 2010 at 15:42

Where are you looking to deploy, if not to IIS?

If you are wanting to create an installer, then look at WIX: http://wix.codeplex.com/

Izi · 14 Sep 2010 at 16:37

Dj_Jestar said:
Where are you looking to deploy, if not to IIS?

If you are wanting to create an installer, then look at WIX: http://wix.codeplex.com/

Yes looking to deploy to IIS, not from another IIS installation.

All i need to do is dump the compiled files in to a folder because the sites are already set up in IIS.

This is the functionality I am trying to replicate from cmd line:

Dj_Jestar · 14 Sep 2010 at 16:56

That's exactly what MSDeploy does?