Improving Your Build Process

Question

Or, actually establishing a build process when there isn\'t much of one in place to begin with.

Currently, that\'s pretty much the situation my group faces. We do web-a

Answer 1

We switched from using a perl script to MSBuild two years ago and haven't looked back. Building visual studio solutions can be done by just specifying them in the main xml file.

For anything more complicated (getting your source code, executing unit tests, building install packages, deploying web sites) you can just create a new class in .net deriving from Task that overrides the Execute function, and then reference this from your build xml file.

There is a pretty good introduction here: introduction