Monitor Checkins

Donal.Burke · Post by **Donal.Burke** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:02 am

Is it possible to monitor checkins to vault? I am using Visual Build Professional to automate my builds and I would like to be able to schedule the builds when the files have been checked in.

ian_sg · Post by **ian_sg** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:06 am

CruiseControl.NET is designed to do exactly this (kick off a build when there's a change in source control), and supports Vault. If Visual Build can be kicked off via a command-line, you could probably use CC.NET to look for changes and still use Visual Build to do the actual building.

You might also check with the Visual Build folks to see if they support polling for changes, which is how a build tool typically accomplishes what you're asking.

Donal.Burke · Post by **Donal.Burke** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:13 am

Thanks for that, I had been looking at CC but I was hoping to be able to do it from visual build. I will drop a line to the lads at Visual Build and see if they provide any polling facility. Other wise I will go down the Cruise Control route.

Thanks Again,
Donal

GregM · Post by **GregM** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:59 am

We are currently using Visual Build and Vault together. Our system just does a GET from Vault, and if anything was retrieved, we do a build. It's not the "cleanest" system, as it's just a batch file that loops. If you find anything interesting in Visual Build to help with this, we'd like to know about it.

Donal.Burke · Post by **Donal.Burke** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:02 am

I posted the question on the Visual Build Pro fourm yesterday in regard to does VBP provide polling and it does.

Here is the link to the VBP forum answer:

http://www.kinook.com/Forum/showthread. ... 0#post4870

Hope it helps, looks straight forward enough, they provide a sample aswell.

Donal