Suggestions for automating a build wanted

amazinglee · Post by **amazinglee** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:28 am

We've got about 5 solutions each holding 3 or more projects. Each project is a class library or exe.

We're trying to find a way of automating our builds so that we don't have to get the latest from source control, on each 5 solutions, each time we want to label and do a new build.

So far we've found using devenv.exe name.sln /build debug works ok for building, however getting the latest from source control first is what we're really after.

Should we do this via the command line vault.exe? The problem I can see with this is that visual studio doesn't seem to like this method, and wants you to open from source control from its IDE.

Does anyone have any ideas on how best to automate our builds?

Thanks

dan · Post by **dan** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:45 am

Using the command line client should work fine, but it doesn't integrate with Visual Studio, so you'd have to run it separately.