R – Stop CruiseControl.NET auto build

I used CruiseControl with NAnt extensively, but not MSBuild. Do you have different MSBuild files for each build type (i.e. local/test/prod)? Could you have a single one that can be parameterized such that your CCNet integrators can explicitly call the appropriate options for the target environment? That's how I have my continuous integration versus release candidate builds configured in CCNet. A single master NAnt build script and a different CC integrator for each target env with the necessary build parameters (be them targets or property values). I imagine you could do something quite similar with MSBuild vars/targets.

Cracked it. It wasn't a firewall problem, it was a proxy problem.

We use Bluecoat here (yes, I know, not my call) and so the Subversion 'servers' file, which lives at 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Subversion\' on all our developer PCs has an entry to let us bypass the proxy to get out to specific external repositories. However, we tend to use TortoiseSVN mostly, and access this file through the property sheet - until now, not realising that it's a Subversion file, not a TortoiseSVN file.

Naturally, since we don't use TortoiseSVN on the build servers, we've never messed with the 'servers' file. However, now that CruiseControl.NET needs to get to an external repository (previously it has only talked to our internal repositories) it was unable to get past the Bluecoat roadblock.

Once the puzzle clicked into place, I created a 'servers' file on the build box, added our bypass configuration to it, and suddenly CruiseControl.NET and Subversion in Service Mode can see the remote repository.

I'm still not entirely sure why it worked in commandline mode but not service mode, but I've fixed it so I'm happy. :)