Johan Danforth's Blog : CruiseControl.NET

Better Log Formatting for CruiseControl.NET and MSBuild

jdanforth — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:41:01 GMT

This is just a blog post to bump the topic on search engines to help people using MSBuild and CruiseControl.NET to get to the right place. I personally recommend to use the "Improved MSBuild Integration" logging option by Christian Rodemyer. If you follow the instructions on this page, you'll get it right.

You may also have to change the dashboard stylesheet somewhat if you want to add or remove smileys or other GUI-related things depending on the results from unit testing etc, but the output in the CruiseControl dashboard is nice and clean.

[MSBuild][Tools] MSBuildShellExtension - Nifty Tool for Builders

jdanforth — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:52:00 GMT

This little project from CodePlex is quite useful for those of you who are responsible for the Build process, Team Build, CruiseControl.NET, NANT, etc. This is the project description from their website on CodePlex:

MSBuild shell extension gives you what you've always wanted: A way of cleaning, building and rebuilding your .net projects from the explorer without needing to open Visual Studio 2005 or the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt.

It looks like this:

and when you run it, it builds the project or solution in a command window and displays the error/warnings dialog similar to the one in VisualStudio. Nice!

How to Use Msbuild.exe with CruiseControl.NET

jdanforth — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:52:00 GMT

I just updated my primer/tutorial/walkthrough on CruiseControl.NET with some information about how to use msbuild.exe instead of devenv.exe in your minimal cc.net configuration. One good reason to go with msbuild is that you don't need to install VS.NET on a dedicated build server, and you can also target unit tests, performance tests, code analysis etc. that you may have added using the Team Edition versions of VS.NET.

Please check it out and comment on it if you please.

Quickstart on CruiseControl.NET

jdanforth — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:59:00 GMT

I just wrote a page about how to set up CruiseControl.NET to compile and test a VS.NET web app solution in a few minutes. It's over at my Walkthroughs and Tutorials section.