I want to deploy windows services from our build server running team city to windows server 2012 with minimum server-configuration.
What is one of the best ways to do this?
I usually use straight powershell or msbuild for this. I try to avoid the flaky msdeploy.
In msbuild you can use the very handy msbuild extension pack thus, so assuming you can copy files to your target destination (Robocopy is handy for that) this will do the rest:
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="InstallService" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<UsingTask AssemblyFile="..\packages\MSBuild.Extension.Pack.1.2.0\lib\net40\MSBuild.ExtensionPack.dll"
TaskName="MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService"/>
<PropertyGroup>
<MachineName Condition="$(MachineName)==''"></MachineName>
<ServiceName Condition="$(ServiceName)==''"></ServiceName>
<ServicePath Condition="$(ServicePath)==''"></ServicePath>
<User Condition="$(User)==''"></User>
<Password Condition="$(Password)==''"></Password>
<SuppressStart Condition="$(SuppressStart)==''"></SuppressStart>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="CheckProperties" BeforeTargets="StopService">
<Message Text="MachineName: $(MachineName)"/>
<Message Text="ServiceName: $(ServiceName)"/>
<Message Text="ServicePath: $(ServicePath)"/>
<Message Text="User : $(User)"/>
<Message Text="SuppressStart : $(SuppressStart)"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="StopService" BeforeTargets="InstallService">
<MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService
TaskAction="CheckExists"
ServiceName="$(ServiceName)"
MachineName="$(MachineName)">
<Output TaskParameter="Exists" PropertyName="DoesExist"/>
</MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService>
<MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService
TaskAction="Stop"
ServiceName="$(ServiceName)"
MachineName="$(MachineName)"
Condition="$(DoesExist)=='True'">
</MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService>
</Target>
<Target Name="StartService" AfterTargets="InstallService">
<MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService
TaskAction="CheckExists"
ServiceName="$(ServiceName)"
MachineName="$(MachineName)">
<Output TaskParameter="Exists" PropertyName="DoesExist"/>
</MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService>
<MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService
TaskAction="Start"
ServiceName="$(ServiceName)"
MachineName="$(MachineName)"
Condition="$(DoesExist)=='True' And $(SuppressStart)=='False'"
RetryAttempts="20">
</MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService>
<Message Text="Service $(ServiceName) set not to start" Condition="$(SuppressStart)=='True'" Importance="High" />
</Target>
<Target Name="InstallService">
<PropertyGroup>
<ServiceExeExists Condition="Exists('$(ServicePath)')">True</ServiceExeExists>
</PropertyGroup>
<Message Text="Installing $(ServicePath) %(ServiceName.Identity)" Importance="high"/>
<MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService
TaskAction="CheckExists"
ServiceName="$(ServiceName)"
MachineName="$(MachineName)">
<Output TaskParameter="Exists" PropertyName="DoesExist"/>
</MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService>
<Message Text="Installed $(ServiceName) $(ServicePath) for $(User) and $(Password)" Importance="high"/>
<MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService
TaskAction="Install"
ServiceName="$(ServiceName)"
User="$(User)"
Password="$(Password)"
ServicePath="$(ServicePath)"
MachineName="$(MachineName)"
Condition="!$(DoesExist)"/>
<MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Computer.WindowsService
TaskAction="SetAutomatic"
ServiceName="$(ServiceName)"
MachineName="$(MachineName)"
Condition="!$(DoesExist)"/>
<Warning Text="%(ServiceName.Identity) service already exists" Condition="$(DoesExist)"/>
</Target>
</Project>
We are using the msdeploy package defined like this:
<sitemanifest>
<runCommand path='presync.cmd' waitInterval='30000'/>
<dirPath path='$winSvc' />
<runCommand path='postsync.cmd' waitInterval='30000'/>
</sitemanifest>
the presync.cmd:
net stop Svc
installUtil /u /name=Svc $destPath\Svc.exe
the postsync.cmd:
installUtil /name=Svc $destPath\Svc.exe
net start Svc
All files are generated by powershell script.
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I am facing one problem in building and copying .NET solution output to a deployment folder.
What i want to do is. Build solution and put the output into C:\TempOutput
then copy the outfiles from C:\TempOutput to another deployment folder.
at 1st attemp it creates folder in C:\TempOutput and creates output dlls and exes in this folder
also it creates folder "Exec\Debug\Bin" but does not copy files from C:\TempOutput
logs says that
Target CopyBuildFiles:
Skipping target "CopyBuildFiles" because it has no outputs.
When i run the script again this time it copies the files from C:\TempOutput to "Exec\Debug\Bin"
Am i missing something? Why it is not detecting output at 1st attempt?
following is the msbuild script
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" DefaultTargets="Deploy">
<PropertyGroup>
<ProjectName>Common Projects</ProjectName>
<SolutionFilePath>..\..\Solution\Solution.sln</SolutionFilePath>
<!--Build/Rebuild-->
<BuildType>Build</BuildType>
<!--Debug -> output : local-->
<!--Release -> output : local-->
<!--ProduDbg -> output : X:\Debug-->
<!--ProduRel -> output : X:\Release-->
<BuildMode>Debug</BuildMode>
<OutputPath>..\Exec\$(BuildMode)\Bin\</OutputPath>
<ExecPath>..\..\bin\$(BuildMode)</ExecPath>
<DestinitionFolder>$(OutputPath)</DestinitionFolder>
<SubDirPath>$(ExecPath)\**</SubDirPath>
<BuildFolder>C:\TempOutputs\</BuildFolder>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<File Include="
$(BuildFolder)\*.*
"
Exclude="
$(BuildFolder)\*.vshost*
"
>
</File>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="PreBuild">
<MakeDir Directories="$(BuildFolder)" />
<MakeDir Directories="$(DestinitionFolder)" />
</Target>
<Target Name="Compile">
<MakeDir Directories="$(BuildFolder)" />
<!-- Build does build only-->
<Message Text="*******************************************************"/>
<Message Text="-->Building $(ProjectName)"/>
<Message Text="*******************************************************"/>
<Message Text="*******************************************************"/>
<Message Text="-->Building in [$(BuildMode) | $(BuildType)] mode"/>
<Message Text="*******************************************************"/>
<MSBuild Projects="$(SolutionFilePath)" Targets="$(BuildType)" Properties="Configuration=$(BuildMode);OutDir=$(BuildFolder)"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="CopyBuildFiles"
Inputs="#(File)"
Outputs=
"#(File->'$(DestinitionFolder)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')">
<Copy SourceFiles="#(File)"
DestinationFiles="#(File->'$(DestinitionFolder)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')"
/>
</Target>
<Target Name="Deploy">
<CallTarget Targets="PreBuild"/>
<CallTarget Targets="Compile"/>
<Message Text="*******************************************************"/>
<Message Text="#(File)"/>
<Message Text="$(DestinitionFolder)"/>
<Message Text="*******************************************************"/>
<CallTarget Targets="CopyBuildFiles"/>
</Target>
</Project>
Try changing this bit
<Target Name="CopyBuildFiles"
Inputs="#(File)"
Outputs="#(File->'$(DestinitionFolder)%(File.RecursiveDir)%(File.Filename)%(File.Extension)')">
<Copy SourceFiles="#(File)"
DestinationFiles="#(File->'$(DestinitionFolder)%(File.RecursiveDir)%(File.Filename)%(File.Extension)')"/>
</Target>
I've got the following xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="DeployPrototype" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<dotCover>..\..\..\plugins\dotCover\bin\dotCover.exe</dotCover>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<SourceFiles Include="..\Prototype\Site\Site\Bin\TestServer\Default.html;..\Prototype\Site\Site\Bin\TestServer\Site.xap"/>
<DestinationFolder Include="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ProjectName\Prototype"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<MSBuild Projects="../ProjectName.Web.sln" Properties="Configuration=testserver" />
<Message Text="Building ProjectName solution" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="TeamCity" DependsOnTargets="Build">
<Message Text="Before executing MSpec command" Importance="low" />
<Exec Command="..\packages\Machine.Specifications.0.4.10.0\tools\mspec-clr4.exe ..\Hosts\ProjectName.Hosts.Web.Specs\bin\ProjectName.Hosts.Web.Specs.dll --teamcity" />
<Message Text="Ran MSpec" Importance="low" />
<Exec Command="$(dotCover) c TestServerBuildAndRunTestsOnly_DotCover.xml" />
<Message Text="##teamcity[importData type='dotNetCoverage' tool='dotcover' path='build\coverage.xml']" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="DeployPrototype" DependsOnTargets="TeamCity">
<Message Text="Before executing copy, source files are: #(MySourceFiles) and destination folder is: #(DestinationFolder)" Importance="low" />
<Copy
SourceFiles="#(MySourceFiles)"
DestinationFolder="#(DestinationFolder)"
/>
<Message Text="Atter executing copy" Importance="low" />
</Target>
</Project>
Everything in this script works apart from the copying of the files. The messages I've put put in the copying section don't appear in the full log in TeamCity. In the configuration settings of the latter, I've put "DeployPrototype" as my target.
Why is the copying operation not happening?
For a given problem involving MSBuild not working under TeamCity, the answer almost always involves adding /v:d (Every step carried out and information about skipped steps) or /v:diag (Detailed plus dumps of ItemGroups etc. for diagnostic purposes) to the MSBuild args and the TeamCity-managed build output will have the answer.
So I run my task with ccnet and my task creates files. What is the best way to read the file and identify if there is a certain value in it from msbuild??
It's depend on your file.
Plain text with multiple lines
If the file is like that :
Building XXX
...
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 38 seconds
Buildfile: file.
You could use ReadLinesFromFile to read the file and CreateProperty with a Condition to check the value.
<PropertyGroup>
<ValueToCheck>BUILD SUCCESSFUL</ValueToCheck>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="CheckValue">
<ReadLinesFromFile File="#(MyTextFile)" >
<Output TaskParameter="Lines" ItemName="Value"/>
</ReadLinesFromFile>
<CreateProperty Value="true"
Condition="'%(Value.Identity)' == '$(ValueToCheck)'">
<Output TaskParameter="Value" PropertyName="ValueIsPresent" />
</CreateProperty>
</Target>
Xml file
If the file is in Xml, you could use XmlPeek (MSBuild 4) or XmlRead from MSBuild Community Task.
How to use XmlPeek?
How to use XmlRead?
Here's what I did in MSBuild 4. It's a crude but native grep for MSBuild, with no pattern matching. This MSBuild project will look for files (FILES_TO_FIND) in a folder (SOURCE_FOLDER) that contain a string (STRING_TO_FIND).
After parsing the files, it prints a list of files that do not contain the string (FILES_THAT_DONT_MATCH), and a list of files that did (FILES_THAT_MATCH).
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"
ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Main">
<!-- Works as-is in MSBuild 4.0.30319.1 -->
<PropertyGroup>
<SOURCE_FOLDER>C:\MyCode</SOURCE_FOLDER>
<FILES_TO_SEARCH>*.sln</FILES_TO_SEARCH>
<STRING_TO_FIND>vcxproj</STRING_TO_FIND>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<FILES_TO_SEARCH Include="$(SOURCE_FOLDER)\**\$(FILES_TO_SEARCH)"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Main" DependsOnTargets="CheckForValue">
<Message Text="$(FILES_TO_SEARCH) files without '$(STRING_TO_FIND)':"
Importance="high"/>
<Message Text=" - %(FILES_THAT_DONT_MATCH.Identity)"/>
<Message Text=" "/>
<Message Text="$(FILES_TO_SEARCH) files with '$(STRING_TO_FIND)':"
Importance="high"/>
<Message Text=" - %(FILES_THAT_MATCH.Identity)"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="CheckForValue" Outputs="%(FILES_TO_SEARCH.Identity)">
<ReadLinesFromFile File="%(FILES_TO_SEARCH.Identity)" >
<Output TaskParameter="Lines" ItemName="LinesFromReadFile"/>
</ReadLinesFromFile>
<PropertyGroup>
<FileContent>#(LinesFromReadFile)</FileContent>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<FILES_THAT_MATCH Include="%(FILES_TO_SEARCH.Identity)"
Condition="$(FileContent.Contains ('$(STRING_TO_FIND)'))"/>
<FILES_THAT_DONT_MATCH Include="%(FILES_TO_SEARCH.Identity)"
Condition="!$(FileContent.Contains ('$(STRING_TO_FIND)'))"/>
</ItemGroup>
</Target>
</Project>
After looking around I can't find a simple answer to this problem.
I am trying to create an MSBuild file to allow me to easily use SpecFlow and NUnit within Visual Studio 2010 express.
The file below is not complete this is just a proof of concept and it needs to be made more generic.
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<BuildDependsOn>
BuildSolution;
SpecFlow;
BuildProject;
NUnit;
</BuildDependsOn>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup>
<Solution>C:\Users\Craig\Documents\My Dropbox\Cells\Cells.sln</Solution>
<CSProject>C:\Users\Craig\Documents\My Dropbox\Cells\Configuration\Configuration.csproj</CSProject>
<DLL>C:\Users\Craig\Documents\My Dropbox\Cells\Configuration\bin\Debug\Configuration.dll</DLL>
<CSFile>C:\Users\Craig\Documents\My Dropbox\Cells\Configuration\SpecFlowFeature1.feature.cs</CSFile>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="Build" DependsOnTargets="$(BuildDependsOn)">
<Message Text="Build Started" Importance="high" />
<Message Text="Build Ended" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="BuildSolution">
<Message Text="BuildSolution Started" Importance="high" />
<MSBuild Projects="$(Solution)" Properties="Configuration=Debug" />
<Message Text="BuildSolution Ended" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="SpecFlow">
<Message Text="SpecFlow Started" Importance="high" />
<Exec Command='SpecFlow generateall "$(CSProject)"' />
<Message Text="SpecFlow Ended" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="BuildProject">
<Message Text="BuildProject Started" Importance="high" />
<MSBuild Projects="$(CSProject)" Properties="Configuration=Debug" />
<Message Text="BuildProject Ended" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="NUnit">
<Message Text="NUnit Started" Importance="high" />
<Exec Command='NUnit /run "$(DLL)"' />
<Message Text="NUnit Ended" Importance="high" />
</Target>
</Project>
The SpecFlow Task looks in the .csproj file and creates a SpecFlowFeature1.feature.cs.
I need to include this file when building the .csproj so that NUnit can use it.
I know I could modify (either directly or on a copy) the .csproj file to include the generated file but I'd prefer to avoid this.
My question is: Is there a way to use the MSBuild Task to build the project file and tell it to include an additional file to include in the build?
Thank you.
I found no way of doing it without editing the project file.
So I made an MSBuild file to:
Copy the project files
Run the copies through SpecFlow
Add the new .cs files to the copied projects
Compile the projects
Debug Run each of the compiled DLLs through NUnit
Clean up - Delete the copied projects
I've blogged about how to use it here:
http://learntdd.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/using-specflow-and-nunit-on-visual-studio-2010-express/
(It's version 1, I'd like to improve the script)
I couldn't think of any way to achieve without any modification to the .csproj file.
The approach I'd suggest would look like this.
In your .csproj you Import a container target file
...
<Import Project="SpecFlow.target" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
...
just above the CSharp.targets.
Specflow.targets would look like this
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include="#(Compile)" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
so it doesn't harm while building the project from VS.
You could then use the Output of your SpecFlow Exec and add it to the SpecFlow.targets file
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include="#(Compile)" />
<Compile Include="SpecFlowFeature1.feature.cs" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
...
and clean SpecFlow.targets after building your .csproj.
All
i am trying to automatically update the assembly information of a project using AssemblyInfo task, before build however the target appears to do nothing (no failure/error) just no update/creation
Below is the build.proj file I am using (obviously some contents altered)
Can anyone help?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project DefaultTargets="Build"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MSBuildCommunityTasks\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets"/>
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\AssemblyInfoTask\Microsoft.VersionNumber.targets"/>
<PropertyGroup>
<Major>1</Major>
<Minor>0</Minor>
<Build>0</Build>
<Revision>0</Revision>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup>
<BuildDir>C:\svn\Infrastructure</BuildDir>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<SolutionsToBuild Include="Infrastructure.sln"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build" DependsOnTargets="ChangeDataAccessAssemblyInfo">
<RemoveDir Directories="$(BuildDir)\Builds" Condition="Exists('$(BuildDir)\Builds')" />
<MSBuild Projects="#(SolutionsToBuild)" Properties="Configuration=Debug" Targets="Rebuild" />
</Target>
<ItemGroup>
<TestAssemblies Include="Build\Logging\Logging.UnitTests.dll" />
</ItemGroup>
<!--<UsingTask TaskName="NUnit" AssemblyFile="$(teamcity_dotnet_nunitlauncher_msbuild_task)" />
<Target Name="Test" DependsOnTargets="Build">
<NUnit NUnitVersion="NUnit-2.4.6" Assemblies="#(TestAssemblies)" />
</Target>-->
<Target Name="ChangeDataAccessAssemblyInfo" >
<Message Text="Writing ChangeDataAccessAssemblyInfo file for 1"/>
<Message Text="Will update $(BuildDir)\DataAccess\My Project\AssemblyInfo.vb" />
<AssemblyInfo CodeLanguage="VB"
OutputFile="$(BuildDir)\DataAccess\My Project\AssemblyInfo_new.vb"
AssemblyTitle="Data Access Layer"
AssemblyDescription="Message1"
AssemblyCompany="http://somewebiste"
AssemblyProduct="the project"
AssemblyCopyright="Copyright notice"
ComVisible="true"
CLSCompliant="true"
Guid="hjhjhkoi-9898989"
AssemblyVersion="$(Major).$(Minor).1.1"
AssemblyFileVersion="$(Major).$(Minor).5.7"
Condition="$(Revision) != '0' "
ContinueOnError="false" />
<Message Text="Updated Assembly File Info"
ContinueOnError="false"/>
</Target>
</Project>
I think you are missing the specification of the AssemblyInfoFiles attribute on your AssemblyInfo task. Here's how it looks on a project I'm working on...
<Target Name="AfterGet">
<Message Text="In After Get"/>
<CreateItem Include="$(SolutionRoot)\Source\SomeProject\My Project\AssemblyInfo.vb">
<Output ItemName="AssemblyInfoFiles" TaskParameter="Include"/>
</CreateItem>
<Attrib Files="#(AssemblyInfoFiles)"
ReadOnly="false"/>
<AssemblyInfo AssemblyInfoFiles="#(AssemblyInfoFiles)"
AssemblyDescription="$(LabelName)">
</AssemblyInfo>
</Target>
What we're doing is first using to create a property that contains the name of the file we'll be updating. We have to do this via createItem because when we start the build the file doesn't exist (and that is when MSBuild evaluates the and definitions in your build file.
We then take the readonly bit off the file.
Finally we invoke the AssemblyInfo task passing it the file(s) to update and a custom assembly name that we want to give it (in this case we put the TFS build label into the Assembly Description field so that we can easily tell which team build the assembly came from.