Resolving Binary References in MSBuild
An acquaintance of a friend tweeted about a problem he's having with MSBuild: it often fails to resolve nth-tier binary dependencies of a project: The application references a binary directly, which...
View ArticleContinuous Integration Timeline
We've been using CruiseControl.NET at my shop for a few years. One of the things I've never really enjoyed about the CC.NET dashboard is the lack of a recent build history for the entire build farm....
View ArticleUsing PowerShell Scripts as SVN Hooks
You can tell from my recent blog posts that I'm spending a good deal of time in my SCM role at work. I've recently been looking at using powershell scripts to replace some binary hooks that have...
View ArticleLoad-Balancing the Build Farm with CruiseControl.NET
Our CI system isn't terribly complicated, thankfully. It evolved from a batch file on a single machine to a farm of VMs running CruiseControl.NET and a single Subversion repository. The triggering...
View Articleget-buildstatus PowerShell Script
I just bashed out this powershell script to query the build farm status using the CC.NET server report XML page: # get-buildstatus.ps1 $client = new-object system.net.webClient...
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