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• Automated builds complete

  Our automated build process is complete (I've been b logging about the process over the past several weeks). I thought I'd take a minute to blog a few of the bits I learned along the way. For a short history, I started the build process with NAnt to create... Posted Dec 13 2004, 10:19 AM by shebert with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Build Automation

• Changing course on NAnt

  I've been blogging about using NAnt in my spare time to get software builds fully automated at work. I ran into a product today that changed my approach. Today I ran into Mike Gunderloy's posting that Visual Build Professional 5.6 is available and downloaded... Posted Dec 07 2004, 05:05 PM by shebert with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Build Automation

• Nice NAnt introductory article

  As I'm working on my NAnt implementation, I came across Eric Desch's article published on the 4 Guys From Rolla site titled “ A Brief Introduction to NAnt ”. He does a very nice job of providing an introduction to NAnt along with a rundown... Posted Dec 02 2004, 09:55 AM by shebert with | with no comments Filed under: Build Automation

• Integrating database upgrades into project distribution

  My next step in refining our build process is incorporating the database upgrade script into our msi distribution. I've got the code that selects 1..n servers/databases and performs the upgrade. Next, I need to create a build function that encrypts and... Posted Nov 15 2004, 02:11 PM by shebert with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Build Automation

• Building a database script using NAnt - supporting source code

  I had a couple of requests for the code I used to build my sql script on the fly in conjunction with NAntContrib (blogged about it here ). Before I show the code, my next refactoring would include (1) creating a ProcessState interface and generating seperate... Posted Nov 11 2004, 10:52 AM by shebert with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Build Automation

• NAnt-ing my database build

  I finished the process of performing my database build using NAnt (actually NAntContrib). I dusted off an old class library I used with a .Net plug-in I built for automating the database build and modified it so it could handle the NAnt.Core.Project object... Posted Nov 08 2004, 02:26 PM by shebert with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Build Automation

• NantContrib finally building

  I finally got NantContrib working, what a pain! This is one of those “don't try this at home experiences”. I got it working between setting up a series of cubes on SQL Server 2000 using SQL Analysis Services. I'll have to draw up the steps... Posted Nov 05 2004, 10:26 AM by shebert with | with no comments Filed under: Build Automation

• Compiling Nant and NantContrib

  I'm continuing the process of getting Nant and NantContrib on my pc. NantContrib is an extension to Nant that supports source control, msi creation, and other “platform specific” nant components if you are not aware of this. The documentation... Posted Nov 01 2004, 10:49 AM by shebert with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Build Automation

• Using Nant with Database projects

  Here is an interesting bit about database projects that I forgot, database projects (.dbp) are formatted much like VB6 and earlier project files. I was hoping I could using an XSLT script to modify the project and roll it into a nant script capable of... Posted Oct 29 2004, 10:05 AM by shebert with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Build Automation

• Nant Discussion and the larger issues

  I started blogging my nant experiences yesterday without explaining the larger issue surrounding the need for nant. As our company is growing, we now have a need for daily builds. Some will argue that daily builds should be an automatic practice all along... Posted Oct 29 2004, 09:31 AM by shebert with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Build Automation

• Fun with Nant - thank you Darrell

  I blogged my initial thoughts on Nant and my hopes for finding some better tools beyond what I had found just before lunch. When I got back from lunch, Darrell Norton replied with an XSLTTransformer application over on C# Corner . I found the vsconvert... Posted Oct 28 2004, 03:53 PM by shebert with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Build Automation

• Fun with Nant

  I'm beginning the process of automating our build process using Nant . I've taken a look at a couple resources on the Nant wiki and found John Lam's blog somewhat useful on the topic. I'm continuing to look for useful material on the net. Our project... Posted Oct 28 2004, 11:11 AM by shebert with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Build Automation