Anything better than CruiseControl for .Net CI? [closed]

Answer 1

AppVeyor CI is worth looking at. It's a hosted Continuous Integration service for .NET developers and it's free for open-source projects.

Answer 2

TeamCity is a very good CI server. (and the "Professional" edition is free)

I've been using it for over a year for building .NET projects, and I must say it's way better than CC.NET IMHO.

Strong points are:

• Very easy to configure (web based GUI)
• Distributed system (you can have several build agents on multiple machines to distribute the build process)
• Built-in support for many source control systems
• ... check the website. The product is awesome ...

Answer 3

Why not MSBuild if you are building .Net projects? Do you have a TeamFoundationServer, if so, TeamFoundationBuild and MSbuild are a definite possibility.

Answer 4

TeamCity is really a good solution.

Hudson is also a really great tool, and even if it is essentially dedicated to Java projects, it can be used on .Net or C++ projects quite easily now...

Answer 5

Bamboo is an alternative... it also is provided as part of a integrated toolset or cloud service. They include Subversion, Jira (task/bug logging), confluence (WIKI), and other coding tools - see the link.

The are available as a managed service or you can purchase the suite and run it internally. Their packages are extended to use a single sign on system and centrally administrated.

Answer 6

If you haven't seen it you might want to check out the Continuous Integration Feature Matrix which lists virtually ever CI server out there.

I work on the Java version of CruiseControl and these days I work for Urbancode who makes AnthillPro. From that perspective the right tool depends on the scope of what you're looking for. If you're just looking for fast feedback after a build lots of tools will work. If you're looking to setup a build grid then a there's a smaller group of tools. If you want to track dependencies between projects and deployments to multiple environments then you're in an even smaller group.