We have CC.NET setup on our ASP.NET app. When we build the project, the ASP.NET app is pre-compiled and copied to a network share, from which a server runs the application.
The server is a bit different from development box'es, and the next server in our staging environment differs even more. The difference is specific config files and so on – so I want to exclude some files – or delete them before the pre-compiled app is copied to a network share.
My config file looks like this:
<project name="Assembly.Web.project">
<triggers>
<intervalTrigger seconds="3600" />
</triggers>
<sourcecontrol type="svn">
<trunkUrl>svn://svn-server/MyApp/Web/Trunk</trunkUrl>
<workingDirectory>C:\build-server\Assembly\Web\TEST-HL</workingDirectory>
<executable>C:\Program Files (x86)\SVN 1.5 bin\svn.exe</executable>
<username>uid</username>
<password>pwd</password>
</sourcecontrol>
<tasks>
<msbuild>
<executable>C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5\MSBuild.exe</executable>
<workingDirectory>C:\build-server\Assembly\Web\TEST-HL</workingDirectory>
<projectFile>C:\build-server\Assembly\Web\TEST-HL\Web\Web.sln</projectFile>
<buildArgs>/noconsolelogger /p:Configuration=Debug /v:diag</buildArgs>
<targets>Build</targets>
<timeout>900</timeout>
<logger>C:\Program Files\CruiseControl.NET\server\ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.MsBuild.dll</logger>
</msbuild>
</tasks>
<publishers>
<buildpublisher>
<sourceDir>C:\build-server\Assembly\Web\PrecompiledWeb</sourceDir>
<publishDir>\\test-web01\Web</publishDir>
<useLabelSubDirectory>false</useLabelSubDirectory>
<alwaysPublish>false</alwaysPublish>
</buildpublisher>
</publishers>
</project>
As you can see, I use a buildPublisher to copy the pre-compiled files to the network share. What I want to do here, is either 1) delete certain files before they are copied or 2) replace those files after they have been copied.
I DO NOT want to have some app running watching specific files for change, and then after that replace the files with other ones. I want something to be either done by CC.NET, or triggered by CC.NET.
Can you launch a .bat file with CC.NET?
Best Answer
You have to use NAnt for those kind of stuff. Here is the Task Reference of Nant..