In this chapter, we will show you how you can generate your NAnt build scripts. First we do it the manual way, but at the end you will see that we have a script, which automaticly creates our master.build scripts for all the projects we have defined in our script generator. There will be a follow up for this article in the next chapter to discuss the a few build scripts which are called from within this script.

In this chapter we will show you how we can add a project to our cruisecontrol.Net configuration file, so it will build our project. NAnt uses master.build files for building a project. In this chapter we show you also how this build file can be made.

It's been a while, but finally I had some time for a new post.

In my post "Vista #7: Software part 4", I mentioned the problem I had with installing SP1 for VS 2005.  A few weeks later, the SP1 came with the windows update and installs correctly.  After the installation I also installed the SP1 Patch for Vista.

Finally my VS2005 is up and running.  But when starting VS2005, I always got following message

When pressing the continue, VS 2005 starts up.  After a few quick checks it seems that VS2005 runs normally without any problem.  Trying to disable this warning, I set off the UAC, change the startup of VS2005 with admin rights, but nothing seems to help. 

My guess is that it's just a warning to be sure that you have enough rights for using VS2005.

While I was learning WPF I saw that there was a spelling check possibility added to the textbox and richttextbox. It works nicely, the only thing that I didn't found out then was how to change the language library so that you could use the spelling check for the Dutch language instead of the English (and default) one.

Finally I have more info about it:

First of all at this moment only the English, French and German language library's are available (I quote that this was at the end of February 2007).

When having a textbox, the language of the spellchecker depends on the language of the control, while for the richtextbox this depends on the typed text.

For the textbox you could change your language using this statement: x:lang="en-us" or x:lang="fr-fr".

You can find more info here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms788718.aspx

Yesterday I also saw a blog article by Gill Cleeren, where he stated that the spell check comes from the Office dictionary. Have to look at it.

Finally the next part of my Buildserver article.  This time about the the project structure we are using.

First of all, let's see our project structure in Sourcesafe :

We can locate following folders:

• Sources : Still in the project folder
• BinIntern : The project compiled assemblies
• BinExtern : external assemblies
• Release : The officially deployed assemblies
• Buildscripts: All the Cruisecontrol.net, Nant (MsBuild) scripts are located here. This folder has also a subfolder for each Visual Studio Project. In here you can find the master.build script for each project specifically.
• Tools: All the correct versions of the tools (= the versions which are used in the scripts and sources).
• Server and WebDashboard: Contains the configuration of CruiseControl.net like config files, projects, reports, style sheets…

This is it for this part.  Be sure to stayed tuned for the next part, as we will start with our first NAnt scripts.

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Overview Buildserver chapters on my blog :

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : CruiseControl.Net
Chapter 3 : Projects
Chapter 4 : Project Structure
Chapter 5 : NAnt and all our buildscripts

A short overview of my two days at Dev & IT Pro Days 2007 in Belgium. The sessions I'v followed and more.

If you have a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi, you will be happy to know that they have released a new version (2.13.0012) of their drivers for Vista.  Finally gone out of beta.  Download the driver here.

I just have installed them and I must say the sound is better now.

The first troubles with Vista are comming up.

I had installed the Windows Mobile Device Center.  I have succesfully connected to my PDA and have succesfully synchronized with my PC and Outlook 2007.

Since today I got following error when connecting my PDA with my PC :

This is strange as Outlook is installed.  Have to find a solution for this.

It seems that there's a problem with installing SP1 for Visual Studio 2005.  After a first try of almost 5 hours the installation file was still extracting and even not halfway.  I redownloaded the SP, and try again.  After almost 24 hours, the same result.

When trying to instal SP1 for Vista it says that I'm missing the correct patch.

Have to look why ? But it's strange.

For my work, I use remote desktop a lot.  Now there's a gadget for it.  Frameworkx has released this gadget.  You can download it here : http://www.frameworkx.com/frameworkx/download.aspx?id=294.  The latest version is 1.5.