CruiseControl Administration

Dashboard Administration

Cruise Control Dashboard Administration password in "ccnetrocks"


To resolve the following error...
Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\CruiseControl.NET\webdashboard\Packages\packages.xml' is denied

Give "everyone" permission to the file 'packages.xml'.

QA Automation using Silk Test

To Start an application in SilkTest using the built-in function:

You can use the built-in include file "bwcompat.inc" that comes with SilkTest to start an application. Here are the steps:

1. Include the "bwcompat.inc" (find the location of this file and use the complete path) file in your own include file or test scripts

2. Call the function "APP_Start". Here is an example:

APP_Start("application.exe")

You can call *.exe, *.bat files using the above function

MS Build and InstallShield

To use MS Build and InstallShield in Build Automation

To learn more about this topic go to http://kb.flexerasoftware.com/doc/Helpnet/installshield14helplib/MSBuild.htm

MS Build Community Tasks
http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/

CruiseControl and TFS

Cruise Control supports TFS. Following is the example of the CCNET task for TFS:



Full example:

<sourcecontrol type="vsts" autoGetSource="true" applyLabel="true">
  <server>http://my_team_foundation_server:8080</server>
  <username>my_user</username>
  <password>my_password</password>
  <domain>my_domain</domain>
  <project>$/Foobar</project>
  <workingDirectory>c:\projects\Foobar</workingDirectory>
  <cleanCopy>false</cleanCopy>
  <workspace>my_workspace_name</workspace>
  <deleteWorkspace>false</deleteWorkspace>
</sourcecontrol>

Because of dependencies on Team Foundation assemblies which cannot be shipped with the Cruise Control source, this plugin is available as a standalone plugin from the TFS CCNET Plugin project on CodePlex. The plug-in works with Team Foundation Server 2005 and against Team Foundation Server 2008 so long as the Team Explorer client assemblies are available. To download the latest version of the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer client which will install the client assemblies on your machine then visit the Microsoft Download Site. Note that the TFS2008 client assemblies work just fine against a TFS2005 server.


Installing the Plugin
To install the plugin you will need a copy of the ccnet.vsts.plugin.dll assembly. The latest release can be downloaded from the TFS CCNET Plugin project. The assembly should then be copied into the CruiseControl.NET server directory and the configuration file edited appropriately.

Talking to CodePlex
Microsoft have recently launched CodePlex, a developer community site that uses Team Foundation Server for version control and work item tracking. The following example demonstrates how to configure the source control block to talk to CodePlex. Please note that your username should be suffixed with "_cp".

<sourcecontrol type="vsts" autoGetSource="true" applyLabel="false">
  <server>https://tfs04.codeplex.com</server>
  <username>USERNAME_cp</username>
  <password>PASSWORD</password>
  <domain>SND.RNO.GBL</domain>
  <project>$/Foobar</project>
  <workingDirectory>c:\source\Foobar</workingDirectory>
</sourcecontrol>

More info can be found at the following location:
http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Visual+Studio+Team+Foundation+Server+Plugin?focusedCommentId=31097464#comment-31097464


TFS Plug-in for CruiseControl.NET :
http://tfsccnetplugin.codeplex.com