In my last project we used MSBuild as a scripting language. (yeah, really!) We also wrote hundreds of custom MSBuild tasks, for the parts that made more sense in C#. (I even wrote an MSBuild task to generate the boilerplate code for an MSBuild task. Yes, it consumed itself.) While I don't recommend anyone else take this same approach, ...
A lot of my projects contain the Castle/NHibernate/Rhino-Tools stack. What's confusing about this is that Castle depends on some NHibernate libraries, NHibernate depends on some Castle libraries, and Rhino-Tools depends on both. I've built all three projects on my machine, but I feel that copying the NHibernate/Castle libraries is a bit...
Where to store binaries needed for automatic builds on Team System? Are you storing them along with the code in the SCM or someplace else? Is having a big amount of binaries in SCM causing any performance issues with source controol? There is a need to be able to revert to earlier version of some external library in order to fix bugs in...
I am developing a program in VS C++ 2008. Right now, I have a huge list of dll and lib dependencies and I am adding some more. I worry that when I need to update a dependency by building from source (where I have to manually replace built dlls and libs in the correct place), if I accidently forgot to replace something or vice versa, I m...
I have the following class located in Assembly A. The assembly has a reference to StructureMap 2.6.1. public static class Bootstrapper { public static void Bootstrap(string databaseName) { StructureMapBootstrapper.Bootstrap(databaseName); } } I'm referencing Assembly A in a completely different Assembly (B) and I"m...
We have a number of products that consist of a large number of modules, some of which are shared between some of the products. They are spread out over a few version control repositories. Products are built by master Ant scripts that are responsible for checking out all modules and building them in the correct order. The modules don't h...
I decided to modify some code today, and encountered an error that doesn't make any sense to me. I have an interface called IDatabase and a class that inherits from it, called Database. I originally just put IDatabase in the same assembly as Database, but I didn't like this because it would prevent another person from creating a new ty...