Building a build server with CC.NET

So I have started implementing CruiseControl.Net at work and I have to say it is pretty fun. I’ve built a bunch on Nant scripts to build our SOA middle tier, installed CC.Net and setup the first project.

What I am struggling with now is getting VSS to update the source files. I think I am just missing something small but for some reason I can’t get the files to update.

Update

I finally had to create NAnt scripts to update the actual source. The VSS task in CC.Net only monitors the VSS DB for changes, it does not actually down load the latest source. At least as far as I could tell it does not.

Next is to get the VSS labeled. CC.Net will label the source but it is not descriptive enough so it will be a trip back to the NAnt scripts.

Comments

C# Spirograph Point Generators

Spirograph's are cool. See here and here . I put together three ways to generate points for a Spirograph, first using a Brute Force straight generate the points, second using a Parallel.For and third using LINQ.

FileSystemWatcher With the BlockingCollection

While working with the FileSystemWatcher I found that if too many files were created the built in buffer will overflowed and files will be skipped. After much research I found out about the Producer-Consumer Problem . Then I found that .Net 4 has the BlockingCollection which helps solve the issue. But how to use it with the FileSystemWatcher? On StackOverflow I found Making PLINQ and BlockingCollection work together . I'm not so interested in the PLINQ issue but this is a great example of using The BlockingCollection with FileSystemWatcher. [csharp] using System; using System.Collections.Concurrent; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Threading; namespace ConsoleApplication4 { public class Program { private const string Folder = "C:\\Temp\\InputData"; static void Main(string[] args) { var cts = new CancellationTokenSource(); foreach (var obj in Input(cts.Token))

Remote Controlled RoboTank

This is my version of the ever popular to build RoboTank. It uses an Arduino Mega 2560 with the AdaFruit motor shield and an XBee S1 to communicate to the DFRobot Gamepad. The sketch for the RoboTank makes use of the AFMotor.h to drive the motors and includes a serial parser to read and process the commands coming from the Gamepad. Robotank-Sketch.zip DFRobot Wireless Joystick

TechShorts

Search This Blog