We use this Visual Studio extension, but also want to use it on our CI server without checking in the generated bundled files. Are there no command line tools for this?
Wondering how the rest of the Web Essentials community is doing this.?.? Surely others have encountered this before and found a solution, no?
If you are at a point of setting up a CI server then the benefits of bundling built into the Visual Studio seem marginal - I would assume that you are not going to be performing deployments from VS and will be instead deploying through your CI environment.
If that is the case, I would consider turning off bundling in Web Essentials and using a command-line bundling solution such as WebGrease or AjaxMin . I heard that AjaxMin is what is being used by WE and WG anyway.
Another approach could be to leave the WE bundling in place and attempt to use command-line WebGrease to replicate Web Essentials' bundling in your CI step:
wg -b -in:C:\javascript -out:bigjavascriptfile.js
There's a Visual Studio extension for VS 2015 if that helps, but we're still on 2013 so still looking for a better answer.
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Web essentials works great when build in VS, but seems no way to build/bundle (Scss/js,Html,Sprit) when call MSBuild (like team city).
I googled lot stuffs, but only find - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Pta.Build.WebEssentialsBundleTask/ but it only support bundle, is there any other way to do that ?
finally, I found http://madskristensen.net/, Mads Kristensen split Bundler & Minifier and Web Compiler from Web Essentials 2015, and it supported integrate with MSBuild process !!!!
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9ec27da7-e24b-4d56-8064-fd7e88ac1c40
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/3b329021-cd7a-4a01-86fc-714c2d05bb6c
I have an asp.net 4.0 project which uses visual studio publishing. Is there a way I can speed it up possibly by forcing multi-proc build?
It is using aspnet_compiler and aspnet_merge. I couldn't see any cmd line switches for multi-thread/ multi-proc support.
I already have an SSD and it didn't seem to speed up the compile time much when it was added.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb385193.aspx
I might be wrong, but if you build before you publish and do not make changes you should not have to re-build during publish. Therefore, using information from the above article you should be able to build it much faster.
I'm compiling ASP.NET code for the first time ever and I'm stumped.
I downloaded MINGW-Get and just finished installing it. The client gave me the source code and I found a file called RSConfig.exe.
So I assumed that was the config file, ran it, and then tried "make" but got the error
No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop
Any idea what I'm supposed to do? I don't see anything that would resemble a makefile in the source code.
Thanks in advance!
Do yourself a favour and install Visual Studio Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express
It makes development easier and fast
It sounds like you might want to get familiar with the background concepts around asp.net and it's defacto development environment Visual Studio (there are many versions of visual studio).
As Andrei recommends, using Visual Studio Express is a good free way of getting started. The version most suited for web development is Visual Web Developer Express.
Attempting to compile .net code from a toolset such as MinGW isn't a typical route for using asp.net, however I've not used MinGW before and not sure it's possible to compile .net code from it.... Although it is perfectly possible to compile .net code from the command line (using the .net framework sdk) , I certainly wouldn't recommend it if you are getting started.
I'm going to make a guess that it is an ASP.net web forms project, it being the most prolific asp.net project type at the moment.
This official asp.net site http://www.asp.net/web-forms will guide you through what web forms are and how to get the development environment setup. Having this sort of background will aid you in solving your particular situation.
Doesn't Visual Studio generate all kinds of things when you build asp.net websites? I haven't used it in a while but back in webforms with a the dal and a bll, VS generated xml files and other things (don't remember what). And, while I technically could use notepad to fix it, VS seemed to be the only way to make sure things worked right.
How about today with MVC or something else asp.net? Am I tied to Visual Studio forever if I want to build websites? I liked in PHP that I can open up a file and it be simple to change things and it just works.
I am not knocking Visual Studio. It is a great product, but for those in my group that do not use it, it is a learning curve. Not asking for why asp.net is better than php or vice versa, just about visual studio.
EDIT: Is Visual Studio the BEST way to build asp.net projects?
You can use MonoDevelop, Webmatrix, Visual Studio Express but i suggest SharpDevelop, its open source.
sharpDevelop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source, and you can download both sourcecode and executables from this site. In addition, you can find the latest information and changes on #develop, as well as get in touch with the team in the forum.
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MonoDevelop
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No, you can build with MSBuild from command line, just simple msbuild.exe app.sln
You can also use MonoDevelop, which will run on Windows/Mac/Linux.
You could use Microsoft WebMatrix, which is free and aims to simplify the web development process. Another alternative is MonoDevelop, which is an open source IDE for multiple platforms.
I want to set my server to automatically build my application upon commit on SVN repo, then deploy on a test/homologation server.
What I planning to do:
install a build tool (Nant? use MSBuild?);
create a simple script and set a hook to SVN that starts the process of building and deploy.
To do that, what I need to install on my server desides the .NET 3.5 framework? Is Nant capable of build our application based only on our solution file (.sln)?
I researched a little bit, and the Nant last release, v0.86 beta 1, does not include the solution target.
Is there other alternative to do that?
Note that currently I only use the VS2008 build system, and do not call the MSBuild directly. Is that feasible and simple to setup on server environment?
Just use CruiseControl.NET or TeamCity.
They're both fully-fledged continuous integration servers with lots of features and easy to configure.
We use Hudson to do that. Like mentioned before. It supports MsBuild (and Nant). We use msbuild with as paramters the solution file and the build configuration like debug/release (we created a deploy and watin configuration with different web.config's). No extra tasks or different scripts than the solution file we us in visual studio. (which I think is the setup you're after)
Additionally before deployment we setup a webserver (cassini) with the results of the build execute nunit (watin) tests. All through Hudson, which shows a nice diagram of the nunit test results.
TeamCity and CruiseControl.Net should be capable of doing the same thing,but I found hudson to be a snap to setup, and configure. (It has everything included in a package just start it)
What's also nice is that it supports SourceCop and FxCop results which you can view in a diagram and look at the location a certain warning applies to in the sourcefile, all using the web interface.
You could use Hudson or Cruise Control for it.
They are Continuous Integration Servers, and can also run your unit tests before deploying it.
I think you are looking at installing Cruise Control.Net. It will handle automatically checking your SCM repository, and kicking off anything build related you want.
http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET
As for NAnt or MSBuild - it's a personal choice. I went with MSBuild as NAnt hasn't been updated in a while. That being said - they are both capable of doing whatever it is you are looking to do.
One note - if you compile in Visual Studio - you are using MSBuild. You can target the SLN or PROJ files with MSBuild through Cruise Control.net.
I use Teamcity and it was very easy to set up. Before that I used plain Nant. The Teamcity server realy changed things, because now everybody in the team understands what is going on on the buildserver.
It is free for up to 20 project configurations.
For Asp.Net you will also need Web Deployment Project on any type of buildserver you choose.
Are you realy shure you need to build sln? For a typical ASP.NET project this is not the best way. You usually build a WebDeploymentProject. Anyway Teamcity (and other buildservers I guess too) understands sln-files.