14 May

Subversion Visual Studio plugin - AnkhSVN

Posted by Matt in 2008, 2010, studio, subversion, svn, visual

Just stumbled across AnkhSVN - a fantastic plugin for Visual Studio that integrates Subversion into the IDE itself.

I've used a few similar systems in the past, but this one is free (under the Apache 2.0 license) which makes it even better!

Download, use and enjoy: http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/

02 Oct

C# web application release strategy

Posted by Matt in .Net, build, C#, publish, release, source control, subversion, svn

I'm currently working on setting up a release strategy for our C# web apps.
All our source code is kept safe by subversion. My goal is to accomplish the following:

  • Automate release builds of all our websites
  • Create per-environment and per-server builds with relevant configuration (eg our staging servers and live servers log to different databases)
  • Enable a simple installation of the latest builds to our remote live servers
  • Be able to tell easily what version of the site is running on our servers
  • Be able to relate the current installed version to a subversion number

My testing so far has lead me to some BATch files running MSBUILD over my sites and some NSIS scripts that compile all the files into a single EXE for easy installation. It's coming on well but I still have some way to go.
If anyone has any recommendations I'd love to hear them!
PS NSIS is fantastic! If you ever need to create any installers, try it!!

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