teamcity

Team City Command Line Build Runner

In Team City, we are currently using a command line build runner. While it works just fine, we don't get any output shown in the Team City log. We essentially get a notification that the process started, and that the process exited with a particular exit code. Is there a way to pipe the output of the command line call to the log so t...

NCover installation

Hi, I'm installing NCover Complete trial version, and wondered if it's possible to install to a different folder and have NCover as part of the VCS? Otherwise the current version of NCover (v3.3.2) would be shared amongst all projects and I can invisage problems when upgrading NCover. TIA ...

TeamCity NUnit test result visualisation

Hi, Is there any way to produce visual results of NUnit tests from within TeamCity's "Tests" tab, currently my NAnt script outputs an .xml file of the results using the following task: <nunit2 haltonfailure="false" failonerror="false" verbose="true"> <formatter type="Xml" extension=".xml" outputdir="${tests.output.dir}" usefile="true...

TeamCity Alternatives

I write a lot of little projects, and I'd like to use something like TeamCity for my build server(s). My problem with just using TeamCity itself is that the Professional version of only seems to allow for, at most, 20 projects. And since these projects are generally not-sellable, the price tag for the Enterprise edition is a bit much. ...

Configuring Multiple Build Configurations from Shared VCS Root in TeamCity

I have a single SVN repository containing multiple projects, e.g. /molindo/trunk/foo /molindo/trunk/bar /molindo/trunk/baz Currently, I've configured 3 projects, all using the shared VCS root /molindo. By default, every commit would trigger build of all 3 projects (although trunk/foo doesn't care about changes in trunk/bar or trunk...

TeamCity + git-teamcity plugin: ParseException

Alright, I've trying to set up a TeamCity server the past few hours, but this as really gotten me stuck. I've got everything working, agents are running, plugin is installed, but when I run the build process it instantly crashes with the following log error: Error collecting changes for VCS root '[email protected]:chrisjowen/nLess.git:mast...

Compiling historical information (esp. SLOCs) about a project

I am looking for a tool that will help me to compile a history of certain code metrics for a given project. The project is stored inside a mercurial repository and has about a hundred revisions. I am looking for something that: checks out each revision computes the metrics and stores them somewhere with an identifier of the revision d...

Build status hardware

We have been using Teamcity for some time for the Continous Integration in the project. Now we want to have some kind of hardware in the room that shows everyone that a build was broken. I've seen mentions to lava lamps and rabbits that can do this, but couldn't see any examples for Teamcity. Does anyone have a good suggestion on what to...

Setting up TeamCity to work with ClearCase

I'm trying to setup TeamCity to work with ClearCase for continuous integration, and I've been having a few problems. TeamCity is complaining that it cannot build the patch for the build. I've been scouring the internet for information on ClearCase and TeamCity, and there is a surprisingly small amount of information on the topic. Has any...

Running multiple TeamCity Agents on the same computer?

We have several build machines, each running a single TeamCity build agent. Each machine is very strong, and we'd like to run several build agents on the same machine. Is this possible, without using virtualization? Are there quality alternatives to TeamCity that support this? ...

Setting tail of AssemblyVersion to be TeamCity $(build_number)

I want to set the Assembly number to the following AssemblyMajorVersion.AssemblyMinorVersion.AssemblyBuildNumber.AssemblyRevision YYYY-MM-DD-XXX Where XXX is my TEamCity $(BUILD_NUMBER) I can assign the value of $(BUILD_NUMBER) and see that is has been set using a text message e.g. However, When I inspect $(MaxAssemblyVersion), I g...

Teamcity ERROR MESSAGE for Server Url?

Hello, I am setup teamcity on my windows 7 laptop. I can connect to it on the server with the windows tray notifier. When I try to connect to it from another machine, i get the "Server URL IS INVALID ERROR? Please Help! ...

Server Side Checkout vs Agent Side Checkout

I've been reading through the TeamCity 4.x documentation, and I am confused what the difference between a server side checkout and an agent side checkout is, as mentioned in this snippet from their help section: Exclude checkout rules will only speed up server-side checkouts. Agent-side checkouts emulate the exclude checkout rules by...

ClearTool Error: Operation "get cleartext" failed: Permission denied.

When trying to compile a project with TeamCity, I am getting an error from cleartool: "get cleartext" failed: Permission denied. The command that is failing is a call to cleartool get: cleartool get -to C:\TeamCity\temp\cc_35875temp V:\andrew_CI_view\My_vob\MyProject@@\main\branch\7\Apps\main\branch\1\MyProject.Apps.FileTransferUt...

How do I setup an external status page in TeamCity like their standard one that won't require me to login?

We have just moved from CCNET to TeamCity for Continuous Integration. In TeamCity, I can use the ExternalStatus page/widget fine. We run Cradiator (http://cradiator.codeplex.com) as a build radiator and notifier in our room and I have modified the Team Piazza TeamCity plug-in to return XML in the CCNET format so Cradiator can read it. ...

TeamCity build number reporting from MSBuild

Hi, I'm reporting a build number to TeamCity from my MSBuild script using the following TeamCity task: <TeamCitySetBuildNumber Condition="'$(TEAMCITY_BUILD_PROPERTIES_FILE)' != '' " BuildNumber="$(UpdatedVersionInfo)" /> This is called from an UpdateVersion task which generates UpdatedVersionInfo from a global AssemblyInfo.cs This a...

TeamCity vs Team Build

What's pro/cons between TeamCity and Team Build and why choose one instead of the other ? ...

Can TeamCity commit the output of one build to another svn repository, thereby starting another build?

So far, I've only used TeamCity as a continuous build server. No true integration. Now, I have the need to copy the output from one shared project to two other dependent projects, and kick off their automated builds in turn. That is, ProjectA and ProjectB both depend on ProjectC. All three are currently being built by TC when any commit ...

How to get TeamCity to recognize msbuild compilation errors, using the Rake runner

I have a .NET project with a Rake build script. Rake calls msbuild.exe to do the actual compilation. When I configure a TeamCity 5.0 build using the Rake runner, compilation errors are not recognized as such by TC. When a compilation error occurs: The build does abort and is flagged as a failure; The log overview does not contain the ...

How to get MSTest to find my test data files?

I have a few tests that need to be fed with external data from excel files. The files are included in the test project, and in Visual Studio, I have edited the test settings file (Local.testsettings) to deploy the data files. This makes it work fine i VS. We are, however, also running continous integration with TeamCity, and in TeamCity...