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Debugging your custom NAnt tasks
Now that we've got some custom tasks, they might not behave as expected. The next problem is debugging these tasks. The biggest issue with this is if it's a problem that only is exposed on the build machine. In our case at Atalasoft, builds are complicated Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:20 AM by dterrell | 0 Comments

Custom functions in NAnt
It's been a while, and my handy new environment script is working well with most of our current builds (there are over 100 CCNet projects currently). Today I'm going to touch briefly on something that helped me, and was really easy to setup. First, some Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:16 AM by dterrell | 1 Comments

A Visual Studio command prompt environment in NAnt
Released in March, Atalasoft's toolkit v6.0 had a bug release v6.0a and we've branched to begin building new functionality for our new release while being able to maintain/bugfix v6.0. In addition, we're internally branched to have one codebase as a sandbox, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:46 AM by dterrell | 1 Comments

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AtalaFileRegex: Putting it together
In my recent blog posts Writing NAnt tasks with nested types and Extending NAnt with your own type I went through adding nested types to custom task, and also making your own nested type to show how easy it is to get NAnt to do something it doesn't do Read More...

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 11:38 AM by dterrell | 2 Comments

Extending NAnt with your own types
Last time I talked about how to nest existing elements in your custom NAnt tasks. Now that you've had a good look at that, and Jacob's custom task, there's only one other thing to cover in this subject: a new type. Types end up looking a lot like a new Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:51 AM by dterrell | 2 Comments

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Writing NAnt tasks with nested types
If you follow the Atalasoft Blogs by whatever means, and you're reading this, it's quite possible you've also read Jacob's blog post about extending NAnt . If you haven't already, go check it out since he's covered a huge amount of ground related to what Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:04 PM by dterrell | 3 Comments

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Update on another post
You may have seen my post in the 31 Apps in 31 Days blog. If you haven't already seen the 31 Apps in 31 Days blog, definitely check it out! There's already a week's worth of applications you can make using the Atalasoft family of tools in one way or another. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:43 AM by dterrell | 0 Comments

CI Hurts!
I've only recently begun working as the Build Czar here at Atalasoft, and immediately there are pains. The builds (from what I see) are really complicated. True: building a very complicated product is going to be complicated; however, it's thought that Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:19 PM by dterrell | 0 Comments

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