Basically it parses the XML output into something manageable.
Via Matthijs ter Woord.
–jeroen
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KirillOsenkov/MSBuildStructuredLog: A logger for MSBuild that records a structured representation of executed targets, tasks, property and item values
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/31
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Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier | Dr Dobb’s
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/03
Like regular life, a programmer’s life is constant learning. And sometimes you’d wish you had known things earlier.
A few quotes from the article:
Test constantly while coding. Personally, I think the single most important contribution of the Agile movement to programming is communicating the value of developer testing (generally, unit testing). I am not an advocate of TDD and feel that many of the critiques directed at it are valid. But I am a passionate believer in unit testing. Of all the practices here, this is the one that would have served me best in my salad days. The ability to check in code knowing that it’s unlikely to contain silly errors and overlooked conditions allows me to have a much clearer idea of what progress I’ve made. I don’t have to worry nearly as much that there is still an extended debugging cycle of unknown length ahead of me. I now compile with the expectation the code will work the first time, rather than entertaining the fond hope that it might.
Fully automate the pipeline. This seems like unremarkable advice. But it got me to continuous delivery before that concept had a name. I automated build, test, deploy. I also automated updates to the website, to the Javadocs, to just about everything I could possibly update as part of the regular build. While this took a lot of time to write out (using Ant), the payoffs are continual. By having automated everything (well, except for some manual tests) I can build with high confidence in the generated software, even if a given feature is incomplete. I don’t worry at all about fragility. In the future, I expect to automate things even more: I want to write more scripts that simulate all the possible installation options and make sure they all work correctly or provide accurate error messages. Right now, I’m pretty sure they do, but I don’t know for certain because of the absence of this step from the automated pipeline.
–jeroen
via: Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier | Dr Dobb’s.
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Finding the path of xsd.exe from your Visual Studio Build Events
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/05
I wrote about the xsd.exe tool before to generate XSD from XML:
- Generate XSD from XML – XSD.EXE versus on-line tools – take 2.
- Generate XSD from XML – XSD.EXE versus on-line tools.
But it is much more than that, as it is a great way of generating .NET (not only C# and VB.NET code) from XSD files:
- .NET/C#: Generating a WordPress posting categories page – part 1.
- .NET – Delphi Prism – How to generate wrapper classes code from XSD file.
Long ago, xsd.exe used to come as part of Visual Studio, but now it is installed with the various Microsoft Windows SDK versions (of which some are downloadable) which makes it harder to locate on your system.
The really bad thing is that Visual Studio cannot find XSD.exe as part of your project Build Events, as the PATH has not been set up correctly.
Starting xsd.exe from a Visual Studio Build Events
In my hunt for the xsd.exe location, I started with a small batch file to find the xsd.exe locations from the registry:
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Interesting presentation at EKON 16: MSBuild Inside the Microsoft Build Engine from Sebastian Gingter
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/11
I missed EKON 16 as both they and we moved outside the regular conference season.
So I missed this session: EKON 16: MSBuild // Speaker Deck that has these GitHub source examples: gingters/EKON16_MSBuild.
Thanks Sebastian Gingter for pointing me at this!
msbuild is used by both Visual Studio and Delphi for building projects, and this session gave me some good ideas to improve the Continuous Integration projects I already had into place.
–jeroen
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