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Process management using Jobs on Windows Posted by Len at 14 Feb 2008 09:25 AM
One of the problems I currently have with CruiseControl.Net is that some of my tests spawn multiple processes; such as server tests which run the development environment, which runs a batch file to start a server (or two) and then...

Another CCNet patch Posted by Len at 11 Feb 2008 06:02 PM
Here is another patch for CruiseControl.Net. This patch provides support for a Robocopy SourceControl provider. This gives a significant performance increase over the FileSystem SourceControl provider. To integrate this I needed to adjust how CCNet determined if an executable had...

CC.Net and Robocopy Posted by Len at 2 Feb 2008 01:15 PM
I'm continuing to tune my continuous integration system. Today I switched the 'deploy' projects from using a CC.Net file system source control task to do the deployment to using Robocopy. This has sped things up nicely and made the deployments...

CC.Net File System Source Control speed up Posted by Len at 1 Feb 2008 11:22 AM
Yesterday I mentioned that the file system source control provider in CC.Net was a little inefficient. I speculated as to how it might be working and how it might be improved. Well, as the saying goes, assume makes an ass...

Living with continuous integration Posted by Len at 31 Jan 2008 08:48 AM
Well, it's about a month since I started running Cruise Control .Net and things have settled down somewhat now and I can almost go a day or two without tweaking my configuration or being tempted to fix issues in Cruise...

CruiseControl.Net patches Posted by Len at 14 Jan 2008 02:25 PM
Hacking CruiseControl.Net to work better for my specific circumstances (lots of projects that depend on lots of projects) has resulted in the following patches to revision 3607 of ccnet which I'm just about to submit to the developers. These patches...

Local project trigger... Posted by Len at 4 Jan 2008 06:45 PM
I hacked another fix into CruiseControl.Net today and we now almost have an acceptable level of performance in my particular (some may say warped) circumstances. The trick was to hack the project trigger to be a "local project" trigger. By...

Thread.Sleep(100); // sleep for a short while, to avoid hammering CPU Posted by Len at 3 Jan 2008 10:41 PM
I am intending to check out some of the other build servers that people have been suggesting, but today I was too busy with real work so I just left a cut down version of my latest CruiseControl.Net configuration running...

More Cruise Control .Net woes Posted by Len at 2 Jan 2008 06:46 PM
I've almost got something that works out of CruiseControl.Net. Once I'd hacked in some fixes for the project triggers and other stuff that didn't work the way I wanted it to I concentrated on generating the config files that I...

Fighting with CruiseControl.Net... Posted by Len at 21 Dec 2007 09:55 PM
I've been trying to get my code to build with CruiseControl.Net this week. It's taken longer than I'd hoped, but I'm almost there. It became easier when I switched from assuming various parts of CruiseControl.Net would "work as I expected...

CruiseControl.Net Posted by Len at 18 Dec 2007 05:11 PM
I'm currently working on two new releases of my socket server framework, the first is a simple release to add support for VS2008 and the second is the next "feature" release. Due to the number of projects and example servers...