April 2009 Entries
I Haven't posted here for a while, not because I didn't have anything, I have actually updated the Sandcastle Help File Builder plug-in for CCNet a few times since then.
First of all I found a "Do'h" error, a simple "!" was missing in the publishing code, the reason why we never saw it was that if the directory structure of the help already existed where it was published to, the error did not occur, well this is what happens when you don't do prober testing, but as it is a "prototype" still I was not to alarmed. Sadly it might be...
As promised I have packaged a "release" of the Sandcastle Help File Builder plug-in.
This is manually packaged (since I don't yet have my build server making these packages automatically), so please bare with me on structure and what might be off or missing (well it should all be there, so missing is harsh said).
Source
Binaries
The configuration is very simple, in fact in some cases you can use it with only defining one parameter. Here is an example that defines a time-out, a project file and a publish path.
<sandcastle>
<projectFile>G:\Workspace\Help.shfb</projectFile>
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So i have decided to start writing a Sandcastle Plug-in for CruiseControl.NET.
Currently we are using the folowing block at work to build and publish help files
(thanks to: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2007/08/28/automatically-generate-sandcastle-documentation-using-cruisecontrol-net-or-vsts-team-build.aspx)
1: <exec>
2: <executable>C:\Program Files\EWSoftware\Sandcastle Help File Builder\SandcastleBuilderConsole.exe</executable>
3: <baseDirectory><base directory></baseDirectory>
4: <buildArgs><project file></buildArgs>
5: <buildTimeoutSeconds>10800</buildTimeoutSeconds>
6: </exec>
7:
8: <exec>
9: <executable>xcopy</executable>
10: <buildArgs>"base directory\Help" "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\api" /E /Q...
This is the first post about my very own little build server, well this is not entirely true since i made a post about the hardware it is running on, but here I dive into all the software. This post is just made to give a short view of what my daily work includes.
In this first post I'll only cover the following:
Software used for the server
Software used for my Workstation
Software
Here is a quick list for the server:
Windows Vista Ultimate
Thoughtworks CruiseControl.Net 1.4.3, Link...