build-management

We maintain a medium sized windows application developed in vb/c# .net in work. Still now the build and deploy process for this app is manual. I am determined to make this process automated using MSBuild on which i have no knowledge still now. Our app has a simple build structure, set of projects already grouped into four solutions(.sln) and just need to build the four slns in an order. And then publish a project(which is part of the last sln to be built) to a directory. That is it. A simple process which is already consuming 30 mins of manual build time and i'm pretty sure that this can be

I'm trying to automate the build process for engineering group. As part of that automation, I'm trying to get to a point where the act of applying a specific tag that adheres to a pattern will kick off an automated process that will do the following: Check out source code Create a build script from a template Build the project I'm pretty certain I could do this with a post-hook in subversion, but I'm trying to figure out a way to do this with something other than a subversion hook. Would it make sense to monitor the tags directory in the subversion repository to kick off my workflow? Are there

I have a web application that relies on several modules. So to build it, I have a master pom.xml file. What I want this pom file to do is to checkout out all the modules. below is my pom file. <executions> <execution> <id>check-out-project1</id> <phase>generate-sources</phase> <goals> <goal>checkout</goal> </goals> <configuration> <checkoutDirectory>${project.build.directory}/module1</checkoutDirectory> <connectionUrl>scm:svn:svn://svnserver/svn/module1/trunk</connectionUrl> <!--<developerConnection>scm:svn:svn://svnserver/svn/module1/trunk</developerConnection>!--> <username>username<

Could someone tell me the differences between Ant and Maven? I have never used either. I understand that they are used to automate the building of Java projects, but I do not know where to start from. Tim O'Brien In Maven: The Definitive Guide , I wrote about the differences between Maven and Ant in the introduction the section title is "The Differences Between Ant and Maven" . Here's an answer that is a combination of the info in that introduction with some additional notes. A Simple Comparison I'm only showing you this to illustrate the idea that, at the most basic level, Maven has built-in