Question

I have a project in ASP.NET MVC 3, the solution file contains 28 projects in total. This all is in a directory which is configured with tortoise SVN to always get the latest updates from SVN.

I have also installed curisecontrol on my VPS box, where these whole solution exist. I have also created a website in my IIS and everything is in order now.

Can anyone guide me into some tutorials for the following:

• How to setup curise control web dashboard, so my clients can have look on the builds and its reports

• How to use MSBuild with Cruise Control in some step by step tuts

• Any sample build script with following features

• Email notification on build fail or successful build

• stop the deployment if build is not successfull and create a build report

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

How to use MSBuild with Cruise Control in some step by step tuts
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12985/Practical-NET2-and-C-2-An-introduction-to-MSBuild

By default, the web dashboard of ccnet displays the result of build without exact error messages. To display the error in web dashboard, go to “C:\Program Files\CruiseControl.NET\webdashboard” and open file “dashboard.config”.

There, you will find the below code:

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xsl\header.xsl
xsl\modifications.xsl
xsl\unittests.xsl
xsl\MsTestSummary.xsl
xsl\fxcop-summary.xsl
xsl\NCoverSummary.xsl
xsl\SimianSummary.xsl
xsl\fitnesse.xsl

Now add this line in the above code:

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xsl\compile-msbuild.xsl
Therefore the code will become:

<buildReportBuildPlugin>
    <xslFileNames>
        <xslFile>xsl\header.xsl</xslFile>
        <xslFile>xsl\modifications.xsl</xslFile>
        <xslFile>xsl\compile-msbuild.xsl</xslFile>
        <xslFile>xsl\unittests.xsl</xslFile>
        <xslFile>xsl\MsTestSummary.xsl</xslFile>
        <xslFile>xsl\fxcop-summary.xsl</xslFile>
        <xslFile>xsl\NCoverSummary.xsl</xslFile>
        <xslFile>xsl\SimianSummary.xsl</xslFile>
        <xslFile>xsl\fitnesse.xsl</xslFile>
    </xslFileNames>
</buildReportBuildPlugin> 

We can also send the email to the user groups if the build fails.

 <workingDirectory>D:\Projects\TheWorks\Applications\ProjectFolder</workingDirectory>
           <buildArgs>ProjectName.msbuild /p:Configuration=Debug</buildArgs>
            <timeout>1800</timeout>
            <!--  30 minutes -->
    <logger>C:\Program Files\CruiseControl.NET\server\ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.MSBuild.dll
    </logger>
            </msbuild>
            </tasks>
            <publishers>
                <statistics />
                <xmllogger />
                <email from="EMAIL ADDRESS" mailhost="HOSTNAME" 
                mailhostPassword="PASSWORD" mailhostUsername="USERNAME" 
                includeDetails="true">
                    <users>
                    <user name="Jitendra Zaa" 
                        address=[e-mail] 
                        group="AdminGroup" />
                        <user name="Santosh Karemore" 
                        address=[e-mail] 
                        group="AdminGroup" />
                        <user name="Manoranjan sahoo"
                        address=[e-mail] 
                        group="AdminGroup" />
                        <user name="Minal Shirsikar" 
                        address="[e-mail]" group="Emul" />
                    </users>
                    <groups>
                        <group name="Emul" notification="failed" />
                        <group name="AdminGroup" 
                            notification="failed" />
                    </groups>
                </email>
            </publishers>
        </project>  

The tags are self explanatory.

There may be following types of notification:

Failed
Fixed
Always