RE: [Nant-users] Developing NAnt tasks resource

2005-09-28 Thread Marc Holmes
Thanks for the shout Christian! My book does include a chapter on task creation amongst other stuff. Funnily enough, there have been some questions on things such as assembly versioning, db integration and code generation in recent days on this list and the ccnet list. I'm not a very good self-

RE: [Nant-users] Strategies of dividing NAnt build files

2005-06-05 Thread Marc Holmes
Hi, I put down some initial thoughts a little while ago on my blog. I was (and am) trying to standardise/patternise some approaches for large scale builds and these were thoughts I had (or extrapolated) from listening to Mike Roberts' presentation recently. They were with regard to CI specificall

RE: [Nant-users] Why use Nant?

2005-06-02 Thread Marc Holmes
Hi Todd, I second Thibaut's views on the 'why' of NAnt. The point about craftsman -> industrial is an important one. If you consider software activities to be part of a Innovate -> Iterate -> Standardise -> Commoditise chain then any kind of work that you handle manually will at best achieve

RE: [Nant-users] Sql Script

2005-06-01 Thread Marc Holmes
Hi Paul,   My book Expert .Net Delivery with NAnt and CruiseControl.NET (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590594851) covers this in some depth in chapter 8 Luckily you don't necessarily need to fork out for it as there is a sample chapter covering database stuff on the Apress s

RE: [Nant-users] Issue with XmlPoke - my mistake?

2005-05-17 Thread Marc Holmes
Title: Issue with XmlPoke - my mistake? Missing assemblyIdentity?   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Thomas TomiczekSent: 17 May 2005 11:11To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: [Nant-users] Issue with XmlPoke - my mi

RE: [Nant-users] Triggering Nant Build from ASP.Net Web Page

2005-04-02 Thread Marc Holmes
Have you had a look at CruiseControl.Net (http://ccnet.thoughtworks.com)? It will do what you need and a lot more besides. Alternatively you could roll your own remoting wrapper. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter A. Pociask Sent: 01 April

RE: [Nant-users] NAnt + VSS

2005-03-18 Thread Marc Holmes
Hi Paul,   My blog: http://bitarray.co.uk/marc has several articles on NAnt with VSS. These were valid under 0.84 and are still applicable under latest builds in the main. Additionally there is a post on versioning which includes further VSS work. My book (details on the site - due out in

RE: [Nant-users] newbie first post

2005-02-21 Thread Marc Holmes
Hi Chris, My book (terrible plug) will cover these issues regarding Database in the build and release cycle (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590594851/) I use a manual task and also RedGate tools to achieve the necessary integration. In the meantime, you can find a fairly old post o