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New Post: HttpWebRequest - set contentType for Request

mikeFourie — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:03:00 GMT

Ok, can you try https://msbuildextensionpack.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/83768

thanks

Mike

New Post: HttpWebRequest - set contentType for Request

mikeFourie — Thu, 23 May 2013 06:54:20 GMT

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New Post: HttpWebRequest - set contentType for Request

gdmstow — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:35:07 GMT

Hi Mike,
The content type would default to null, so I guess leaving it at null wouldn't break existing users.

regards,
Graeme.

New Post: HttpWebRequest - set contentType for Request

mikeFourie — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:59:29 GMT

Indeed, would you expect the default to be null or

this.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

New Post: HttpWebRequest - set contentType for Request

gdmstow — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:14:21 GMT

It seems a very simple change to enable the ContentType property for ActionType=GetResponse, what do you think?

Cheers,
Graeme.

New Post: Including MSBuild.ExtensionPack.VersionNumber.targets

Srikanthgowda — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:47:15 GMT

Where can i get the exe and i dont want to generate the version by user. I want Assemblyinfotask to update the Assemblyinfo file and i would like to kno whow exactly I can do that?

New Post: Including MSBuild.ExtensionPack.VersionNumber.targets

RKDD — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:42:52 GMT

Hi,
a special Tool ChangeFileVersionInfo with up to 5 parameters was developed to change the version infos according to our special in-house version info settings.
The call is like <Exec WorkingDirectory="$(BuiltDir)" Command="".\ChangeFileVersionInfos.exe" "$(BuiltDir)" param1 param2 param3" /> and is placed between checkout and checkin commands.

New Post: Including MSBuild.ExtensionPack.VersionNumber.targets

Srikanthgowda — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:20:05 GMT

Can you please tell me which line exactly modifies the assemblyinfo file?
Since i am trying to build with the flow you explained here but version is not getting updated in the versioninfo file and checkin is happeneing without modification.

Steps following:

Added import tag
Aded code to checkout the file using script

<Exec WorkingDirectory="$(SolutionRoot)"

      Command="$(TF) checkout /recursive $(AssemblyInfoSpec)"/>

Added code to checkin the file if successful

<Exec WorkingDirectory="$(SolutionRoot)"

  Command="$(TF) checkin /comment:&quot;Auto-Build: Version Update&quot; /noprompt /override:&quot;Auto-Build: Version Update&quot; /recursive "/>

Undo the file is failure.

<Exec WorkingDirectory="$(SolutionRoot)"

      Command="$(TF) undo /noprompt /recursive $(AssemblyInfoSpec)"/>

Thanks in advance.

New Post: Extension Pack and Nuget

ludwighoff — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:57:18 GMT

Dominik

what does your root directory msbuild file do?

Reason I ask is that you could use this file (or indeed after.SOLUTIONNAME.sln.targets) to conditionally XmlPoke in the references to each csproj... (or use the MSBuild model to load up each csproj - which would probably be neater.)

If you used the latter then you could batch through the ProjectReference ItemGroup to get each csproj....

The drawback of using after.SOLUTIONNAME.sln.targets is that F5 in VS does not pick it up - it only gets picked up when you run SOLUTIONNAME.sln directly from MSBuild.

It's all a bit filthy though...

Neil

P.S. How long must we wait to finally get MSBuild solution files? :-)

New Post: Extension Pack and Nuget

rubicon_dominik — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:51:56 GMT

We've got a solution and many projects. The solution has a msbuild file on the root directory, how to correctly use the ExtensionPack nuget package without adding it to each and every project in it?

Is there some special "build project" type?

How do you handle this situation?

All the best,
D.R.

New Post: App Pool Creation in IIS 7

mikeFourie — Tue, 14 May 2013 06:50:42 GMT

Hi Greg

I cant repro this issue and comparing the code there are quite a lot of changes, but nothing that would appear to cause an issue like this. Does the task error when you run it?

Mike

New Post: App Pool Creation in IIS 7

gsuttie — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:58:15 GMT

We are creating an app pool in IIS 7

<MSBuild.ExtensionPack.Web.Iis7AppPool

  TaskAction="Create"
  AutoStart="true"
  MachineName="$(Server)"
  ManagedRuntimeVersion="v4.0"
  Name="$(WebsiteName)"
  PipelineMode="Integrated"
  MaxProcesses="1"
  IdentityType="NetworkService"
  Force="true" 
  Condition="$(AppPoolIdentity) == ''" />

This used to work in msbuildextensionpack 3.5.5 but in 4.0.7.0 I get an error in the event log stating that :-

The application '/' belonging to site '2' has an invalid AppPoolId 'Catalogue' set. Therefore, the application will be ignored.

Which means that the website isn't configured correctly (the Authentication settings are wrong)

Any ideas on what's changed or if I am missing anything?

Thanks
Greg

New Post: Using MSBuild Extension pack to Deploy Code - Need to update configuration file before MSBuild is called to compile code?

mikeFourie — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:16:03 GMT

Ok so you have a bespoke process, i.e. this isn't part of project compilation.

you could have a 2nd copy of the file with the right content and then copy that, or you could call a task to edit the file content before doing it. Again, you have options, like doing regex replace or xml editing.

See: http://www.msbuildextensionpack.com/help/4.0.7.0/?topic=html/f8c545f9-d58f-640e-3fce-b10aa158ca95.htm for replace and http://www.msbuildextensionpack.com/help/4.0.7.0/?topic=html/4009fe8c-73c1-154f-ee8c-e9fda7f5fd96.htm for xml

Mike

New Post: Using MSBuild Extension pack to Deploy Code - Need to update configuration file before MSBuild is called to compile code?

hidalgo45AP — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:13:55 GMT

Hi,

Yes, I can definitely clarify, so below is a snippet of target.xml file I’m working on to help with the packaging of the different components that make up the application I release. I have found that one scheduled task app.config needs to be updated before the <MSBuild> command gets executed. I have tried searching but there are so many ways that I’m confused as to what is the best way. I have colleague that said that I could use the <copy> command and update the file I guess before I copied to the proper project folder but I’m not sure what he means. Looking at the <Copy> sub-commands I didn’t see any that would allow me to edit a value within the app.config and then copy it to the appropriate destination folder. The highlighted portion is the target I’m trying to get correct.

Does this help?

<Copy Condition="'$(output)'=='XXX_Hourly_Update'"

SourceFiles="$(SolutionPath)\$(project)\app.config\"

DestinationFolder="$(DeployProjectFolder)"/>

</Target>

<MSBuild Projects="$(ProjectPath)\$(project).vbproj"

Targets="Rebuild;ResolveReferences"

Properties="OutputPath=$(DeployProjectFolder);

WebProjectOutputDir=$(DeployProjectFolder);

OutDir=$(DeployProjectFolder)\bin\;

Configuration=$(configuration);" />

<!—app.cofnig and web.config transformation.-->

<TransformXml Condition="'$(type)'=='ScheduledTask'"

Source="$(ProjectPath)\app.config"

Transform="$(ProjectPath)\app.$(configuration).config"

Destination="$(DeployProjectFolder)\app.config"

StackTrace="$(StackTraceEnabled)" />

<TransformXml Condition="'$(type)'=='Services'"

Source="$(ProjectPath)\Web.config"

Transform="$(ProjectPath)\Web.$(configuration).config"

Destination="$(DeployProjectFolder)\Web.config"

StackTrace="$(StackTraceEnabled)" />

<TransformXml Condition="'$(type)'=='WWW'"

Source="$(ProjectPath)\Web.config"

Transform="$(ProjectPath)\Web.$(configuration).config"

Destination="$(DeployProjectFolder)\Web.config"

StackTrace="$(StackTraceEnabled)" />

<Delete Condition ="'$(type)'=='ScheduledTask'"

Files="$(DeployProjectFolder)\app.config

$(DeployProjectFolder)\app.debug.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\app.dev.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\app.release.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\app.staging.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\app.qa.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\app.production.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\app.stagingrw.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\app.productionrw.config" />

<Delete Condition="'$(type)'=='Services'"

Files="$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.debug.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.dev.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.release.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.staging.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.qa.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.production.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.stagingrw.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.productionrw.config" />

<Delete Condition="'$(type)'=='WWW'"

Files="$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.debug.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.dev.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.release.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.staging.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.qa.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.production.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.stagingrw.config;

$(DeployProjectFolder)\web.productionrw.config" />

New Post: Race conditions with Tasks

ludwighoff — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:23:30 GMT

Hi Mike

thanks very much for getting back to me. I won't submit a patch - as my 'fix' is quick and filthy; as I don't really have much clue where to begin and as I am mutex-ing irrespective of target machine (see below).

It is something that I've been pretty sure I'd hit now that MSBuild is more and more ||. Luckily for me you have made the source of these tasks available, so thank you for that. If you do create a task for this, please let me know - I am intrigued to know how it could get fixed.

Neil

I slung this in BaseTask

protected static Mutex IisMutex = new Mutex(false, IisMutexName);
protected const string IisMutexName = "Iis-IisMutex";
protected const int IisMutexTimeout = 5000;

And the InternalExecute() methods of Iis7Application; Iis7AppPool; Iis7Binding; Iis7Website now have:

try

        {
            IisMutex.WaitOne(IisMutexTimeout);

...

        }
        finally
        {
            IisMutex.ReleaseMutex();

...

New Post: how to use MSBuild Extension Tasks in DefaultTemplate.xaml in Team Build 2010

MohammedSameeh — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:41:51 GMT

thanks for your replay

in case i want to integrate MSBuild MSBuild Extension Task in TFS Build Work flow ., how to do this ?

New Post: Using MSBuild Extension pack to Deploy Code - Need to update configuration file before MSBuild is called to compile code?

mikeFourie — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:17:22 GMT

I'm not following. Can you provide a bit more info on what you need to do.

thanks

Mike

New Post: how to use MSBuild Extension Tasks in DefaultTemplate.xaml in Team Build 2010

mikeFourie — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:15:22 GMT

Hi

This task is available as an activity in https://tfsbuildextensions.codeplex.com

Regards

Mike

New Post: Race conditions with Tasks

mikeFourie — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:12:50 GMT

Mutex is probably the solution. Feel free to send a patch or raise an issue and I'll look at getting it fixed. What you describe could be a wider issue though.

Mike

New Post: how to use MSBuild Extension Tasks in DefaultTemplate.xaml in Team Build 2010

MohammedSameeh — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:31:48 GMT

i want to use simple MSBuild Extension Zip Task in Team Build server 2010 , to Zip the output of build in drop location

what are the required steps to do this?

Thanks