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• TFS: Automating unit tests as part of the Team Build

  EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved In my new project, we're using Team Foundation Server (TFS) as our source code repository and also as our continuous integration (CI) engine. The CI aspect is handled neatly by Automaton which Read More... Posted 13 February 2007 15:42 by john.rayner | 0 Comments Filed under: Continuous integration, Continuous build, Engineering practices, TFS, Team Foundation Server

• WiX: Integrating into the continuous build

  EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved I've been working on a WiX installer recently and I was asked to integrate it into the project's continuous build process. This turned out to be surprisingly easy. Early on in the development, Read More... Posted 17 November 2006 14:17 by john.rayner | 3 Comments Filed under: Continuous integration, Continuous build, CC.Net, Engineering practices, CruiseControl.Net, Installers, MSI, WIX

• A Windows Service to accept messages via a web service and send them over MSN Messenger

  Here I present a Windows Service which signs in to an MSN Messenger account at startup and exposes some web services in order to send messages. A custom MSBuild task is also included which consumes these web services. Read More... Posted 01 November 2006 12:01 by john.rayner | 5 Comments Filed under: Development practices, Continuous integration, Continuous build, CC.Net, Engineering practices, CruiseControl.Net, Messenger, MSN Messenger Attachment(s): MessengerService.zip

• Getting FxCop to break the build

  EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved Recently I wrote a long post on our continuous build setup and what we had to do to get it all working. However, switching on FxCop wasn't quite as simple as I thought it was going to be. The Read More... Posted 05 October 2006 12:52 by john.rayner | 5 Comments Filed under: Development practices, Continuous integration, Continuous build, CC.Net, Engineering practices, CruiseControl.Net

• Setup of a continuous integration build

  EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved I thought I'd document our continuous integration build, since we had to pull together a number of libraries from different sources in order to get it working. This is quite a long post, but Read More... Posted 24 August 2006 14:11 by john.rayner | 27 Comments Filed under: Continuous integration, Continuous build, CC.Net, Engineering practices, CruiseControl.Net Attachment(s): FxCopReport.xsl.xml