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Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Hudson / Jenkins CI and FxCop
Visual Studio 2010 Premium and Ultimate do have the code analysis feature build in. What this feature does is static code analysis of your source code (or IL to be specific). Unfortunately the Professional edition lacks the build in integration (no Analysis tab in the project properties). Here is a way to easily integrate Visual Studio 2010 Professional with FxCop. FxCop is a standalone Code Analysis version that comes together with “Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 Version 7.1”. Actually if you download and install the SDK you will get the FxCop installer in %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\FXCop. You will have to install it from there (yeah…
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Continuous Integration in .NET – dead tree edition
Finally it happened. I’ve just got my author copies of “Continuous Integration in .NET” the book I coauthored. I’m very, very happy because it was a long journey and finally it happened. My first book is out. I would like to thank all the people who helped at Manning and outside. I was considering writing a longer post about the process, the ups and the downs, but I decided not to. I might return to that thought later. In a mean time if you are considering coauthoring a book with someone you don’t know think twice. If you are considering writing something together with Craig Berntson and want to know…
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Hudson Continuous Integration LED message board monitor
Knowing the state of the build is one of the most important aspects of Continuous Integration. Team should get the information about the problems with he build as soon as possible. If the quality of source code degrades rendering the build to fail team, should jump in and fix the problem. The most popular group of tools that make the swift reaction possible are the tray notifiers. Small programs that reside somewhere in the corner of the screen and show one of the 3 states the build server is ever in: 1. Building 2. Failed 3. Yet another successful build! Oh, and well… not working (if the CI server is…
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Continuous Integration in .NET book MEAP update
There are two new chapters available at Manning MEAP site. The third one about build process automation (with MSBuild) and the forth one about choosing the right CI server (covering CCNet, TeamCity and TFS 2010). And wow the book is third on this weeks bestselling early access titles. Juhu!
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Speaking about continuous integration
I will be speaking on Wednesday (20.01.2010) in Krakow, Poland at the Karkow .NET Developers Group meeting. The session is about Continuous Integration in .NET. So if you like hear what I have to say about CI meet me at ABB ISDC, Pałac Pugetow, ul. Starowislna 13, Krakow at 18:30. I believe the attendance is free but registration is required. See you in Krakow!
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Selenium RC and FitNesse as a service on Windows Server 2008
If you are working in a team or running a continuous integration process the most comfortable way to run tools like Selenum RC Server or FitNesse is to install them as a windows service. I was doing this earlier on my old Windows Server 2003 by issuing the instsrv.exe (to install a service) on srvany.exe (to run anything) – both from Windows Resource Kit. I had to edit the registry to provide what exactly do I wanted to run (java –jar selenium-server.jar or java –jar fitnesse.jar). But there is no Windows Resource Kit for 2008. You might use the sc.exe and get the old srvany.exe (with compatibility issues according to…
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How to make CruiseControl.NET accept SSL certificate under Windows Server 2008?
If you are running CruiseControl.NET under the Local System account and your SVN server certificate was issued by yourself (or by VisualSVN Server) you will quickly run into trouble. Normally if you run any command on your repository you will get this information: C:\Program Files\svn\bin>svn log https://your_server/svn/your_repository/trunk –username username –password password Error validating server certificate for ‘https://your_server:443′: – The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually! – The certificate hostname does not match. Certificate information: – Hostname: your_server – Valid: from Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:24:27 GMT until Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:24:27 GMT – Issuer: your_server – Fingerprint: 24:8e:f6:ba:c7:a6:3f:69:32:c0:21:92:64:44:62:fe:2c:bb:b4:69 (R)eject,…
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Buy Continuous Integration in .NET book
The Continuous Integration in .NET book is available as an early access edition from MEAP. For those of you that are not familiar with MEAP it stands for Manning Early Access Program and it is the place where you can download a free chapter and buy the whole book printed or as an ebook before it gets published. You will get continuously chapter after chapter successively as they will be written.
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Get Oracle stored procedure object output in NHibernate
I’ve wasted view hours on this so I think I share in case you have a similar problem. We are working with Oracle Database and .NET project using NHibernate as a object-relation mapper. We have a function in Oracle that returns an Oracle Object. Objects in Oracle are user defined types. They are defined like this: CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE Foo as object( Value1 number, Value2 date, Value3 varchar(10) ); And now Oracle Function with signature like this: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Bar (id int) return Foo pipelined This function returns a Foo object and gets the id key from a table VT (some table). The 3 values from Foo…
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Next big thing – continuous integration book
I’m going to write a book about Continuous Integration in .NET for the Manning Publications. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how exited am I. I will join the noble team of Manning authors like John Skeet, Ayende Rahien or Roy Osherove. I’ll keep you posted about the progress. In the mean time let me give you some history. I’ve once written an article for Software Developers Journal about Continuous Integration in .NET. It was very well received. I always thought I have a lot more to say in this topic. The idea to write a book came while speaking with my good friend hsd (well I have…