I would like to create a TFS 2013 build definition, which builds a SQL project and outputs the complete CREATE DATABASE script to the bin folder.
When I compile my project on the local machine, the SQL script is output to the bin[configuration] folder correctly as per the database project settings.
However when I build the same project using TFS build automation, the build succeeds but no bin folder is created and no sql script is output.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Additionally, when the script is output locally, the paths are blank:
:setvar DefaultDataPath ""
:setvar DefaultLogPath ""
Any idea how I can populate these for SQL Server 2008 r2 defaults?
Edit:
Actually, if I set the build to target only the .sqlproj file, then the bin is output correctly. The problem comes when the sqlproj is built as part of a solution with other projects.
The build agent does not create individual bin folders in the src working directory; only the start-up project's output is produced and copied to the final bin folder.
I would like the build to generate the sql script and copy it to the output folder along with the other project outputs.
Is this possible?
I ended up going with a workaround based upon This Answer.
If I build the database project as part of the solution, the script does end up in the drop folder, just not the build agent's working folder.
Using:
<CommentOutSetVarDeclarations>True</CommentOutSetVarDeclarations>
in the publish profile allows me to set the default path etc. from the command prompt which was an acceptable alternative in my case.
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New to Jenkins so apologise in advance as I'm sure this answer is out there somewhere. Just not sure exactly how to search for what I'm after. I'm struggling a bit with the copyback process in Jenkins.
When I build, I'm running some unit tests that create some log files which I want to be stored as part of the Jenkins build. I'm running on Windows 10 and everything is running on my laptop (I'm purely trying to learn Jenkins so this is fine for me).
So my test results will always appear in C:\TestLogs\*.log. I want the results copied to my build directory which is URL: http://localhost:8080/job/loadrunner_test/1/ absolute: C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\loadrunner_test\builds\1
I'm a bit confused with which plugin I should use in my post build step? Copy Artifact plugin looks as if it's meant to pass data between builds. For each build, I just want to copy C:\TestLogs*.* to the current build directory so I can see them when I click on the link for #1 in the Build History.
Many thanks!
Tim
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You can copy it with additional step.
Select Execute Windows batch command for that step and add this line:
xcopy C:\TestLogs C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\jenkins_test\builds\%BUILD_NUMBER% /s /e
You can also check configuration for your test if you can set path location.
I have a CodedUI test suite. I'm attempting to use a B-D-T workflow in TFS 2015 R2 to deploy the test .dlls to a machine group and execute them.
The tests rely on a couple files - an html start page and an XML file.
First, I attempted to have the tests just run from the bin folder OR where they're deployed onto the machines in the machine group. No suggestions I found on SO or on the first 3 pages of google worked. Whenever I ran a test locally it would copy the test dlls to the TestResults folder and execute from there.
Then, I attempted to use a .testsettings file to deploy the files with the .dlls into the TestResults folder. I still truly don't understand why this is the best or only solution - if I can just execute from the Bin please let me know how, but it does work - locally.
Now in TFS 2015 when I deploy my testing software to the test agent(Member of the machine group), I can see my supporting files exactly where they should be in the test drop location. Then, the test starts. A temp folder is created in a byzantine region of AppData, where only the .dlls and config are copied - not the files specified in the .testsettings file! The testsettings file is specified in the "Run Functional Tests" task, which I reached by browsing to the correct file in source control.
I can provide any information you require. This should be so simple but it has been an enormous headache.
In the configuration you need to setup where you copied the files to on the remote machine using a "Windows Machine File Copy" task executed by the agent. You need to make sure all the files needed to run are copied to the server.
Then in your .testsettings file specify which of the files you copied over you want to deploy to the temporary test context directory. Only files already copied to the test agent can be selected here.
The File copy task would look something like:
Im trying to setup jenkins in my company and Ive got some problems.
Im using this commands to build the project:
SET MSBuild="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe"
SET BUILDS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\xxx\builds\
SET OUTPUT_PATH="%BUILDS%%BUILD_NUMBER%"
SET RSVARS="C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\10.0\bin\rsvars.bat"
CALL %RSVARS%
SET PATH=%PATH%;D:\komponenty\DXE3\ADSI
%MSBuild% xxx.dproj /t:Build /p:Config=Debug;Platform=Win32;DCC_ExeOutput=%OUTPUT_PATH% /maxcpucount:4
It works fine when i type this in cmd but. I gave administrive privileges to jenkins service. When I try to build project with jenkins i receive error like this:
F1026: File not found: 'ADSI.dcu
this is a component for Delphi and i have this component on second partition. Jenkins has access for many components on this partition but not for this one.
The difference between the two will be your current directory.
Jenkins will start you off in a specific working folder for the job (possibly C:\Users\<User-ID>\.jenkins\jobs\<Job-Name>\workspace).
Add the following to your Jenkins commands to see where you're doing the build from:
echo Current Folder: %cd%
A simple "solution" would be to just add a command in Jenkins to change directory to the same folder you're in when you test from the command-line.
However, I suggest you rather do the following:
Ensure Jenkins gets the latest source from your source repository into its working folder. (There are various plugins depending on what particular tool you use.)
Ensure you cd (change directory) to the correct folder within the workspace folder.
I seem to be getting a lot of pain with the processing of app.config and token files (we have this working with the older ".11" templates).
It looks like currently (using the ReleaseTfvcTemplate.12.xaml) this is running the tokenisation after the build.
While I can make the app.config / myapp.exe.config stuff work by deliberately copying the .token file into my output folder (so the recursive search finds it) this feels pretty horrid.
As a fix I'm tempted to move lines 182-230 to just before the RunMSBuild task on line 175 (creating a new sequence at that point)
Is this the correct approach or have I missed some documentation somewhere (or a later version of the template?)
Thanks guys... Anyway for future reference I did make the change.
However I had misunderstood the exact nature of the order things happen out of the box which is as follows:
Get the project out of source control
build with msbuild
Copy the .config.token file over the .config file. This is in the TFS template
As part of the deploy to a server then the token entries in the .config files are replaced. This is in the release manager template.
Tests are run in the msbuild binary output folders.
The problem is this doesn't really work if you're using an project type that uses app.config file as the msbuild process renames these output.exe.config during the msbuild stage so you need to create both an output.exe.config (marked as copy to output) and an output.exe.config.token so when the post deploy is the final output gets configured correctly. This also a problem if you want to tokenise some mstest dlls as these typically use an app.config as well. Basically this is a bit of a mess unless you are using web.config.
We worked our way around this by using the modification I suggested above (you need to create a sequence at line 175 and move lines 178-230 up into the sequence, this is GetBuildDirectory variable bits and the if statement) followed by adding an additional deployment stage which copies back onto the build server with the new tokenised files so the mstest can run against them.
So our new process looks like this:
Get the project out of source control
Copy the .config.token file over the .config file i.e app.config.token copied over app.config
build with msbuild (this means we end up with tokenised myapp.exe.config and mytests.dll.config)
As part of the deploy to a server then the token entries in the .config files are replaced. This is a release management step in the release template.
Deploy the tests back into a folder on build server (think this has to be a fixed folder until update 4 of release manager is deployed) the token entries in the .config files are replaced (so our integration tests can use the newly deployed servers). This is a release management step in the release template.
Tests are run in the fixed folder on the build server (rather than the msbuild output directory) so the test wildcard needs to be changed in the tfs build template.
Quick final note we don't use that build directory variable and it's left at blank I'm not convinced this would work if it was set to a value...
The replacement of variables in config files with Release Management happens at deployment time and not at compile time.
When RM deployes your app it inserts the correct variables.
It sounds like you're hitting one of two issues:
You need to include the .token file in your project and make sure it's set to Copy Always, so that it gets copied to the build output folder.
If you're building a web application, I've seen a bug in the release build process template that doesn't touch the contents of the _PublishedWebsites folder. I don't know if it's been fixed in Update 4 or not, but it was definitely still a problem in earlier versions.
I have a Visual Studio 2013 solution with the full Orchard source code. When I use "Publish..." on the "Orchard.Web" project in Visual Studio, it correctly publishes the site to the File System destination I've configured into the .PubXml file that I used.
However, if I build this site using Jenkins, the files do not get copied to the destination. I've created a separate PubXml file that is used by Jenkins.
In my Jenkins job, I have two Build steps of interest. The first uses the src\Orchard.sln file with a command line argument of /p:Configuration=Release. This runs correctly, and builds the entire solution.
The second Build step, immediately after, uses the Build File of src\Orchard.Web\Orchard.Web.csproj and these command line arguments:
/p:DeployOnBuild=true
/p:PublishProfile="D:\workspace\Site\trunk\src\Orchard.Web\Properties\PublishProfiles\Jenkins.pubxml"
/p:VisualStudioVersion=12.0
/p:Configuration=Release
/p:Platform=AnyCPU
/v:minimal
/nologo
/p:WarningLevel=1
With this, the build and deploy seems to work - but doesn't. Here are some lines from the build output:
Copying all files to temporary location below for package/publish:
obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp.
Auto ConnectionString Transformed obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp\Shapes\Scripts\Web.config into obj\Release\CSAutoParameterize\transformed\Shapes\Scripts\Web.config.
(... about 200 more "Auto ConnectionString..." lines...)
Finished: SUCCESS
No where does it actually copy the files to the destination defined in the PUBXML file.
In contrast, in Visual Studio, the output looks similar, but transforms only 4 config files and includes lots of "Publishing folder x" lines:
(...)
Transformed Modules\SH.GoogleAnalytics\web.config using ....
Copying all files to temporary location below for package/publish:
obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp.
Publishing folder /...
Publishing folder bin...
(etc.)
(I have installed the latest Windows Azure SDK for .NET on the Jenkins server.)
I have the same trouble,that work for me:
/t:Rebuild
/p:DeployOnBuild=true
/p:PublishProfile=Jenkins_Publish
/p:Configuration=Release
do not use /p:VisualStudioVersion=xxx
This is kind of old, but I actually just set up Orchard to be able to get built via command line and MSBuild. Here is what I did:
/p:VisualStudioVersion=12.0;PublishProfile="example-profile";DeployProjA=true;FrameworkPathOverride="C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v4.5";Configuration=Release;PublishProfileRootFolder=c:\Workspace\src\Orchard.Web\Properties\PublishProfiles;Password=ExamplePass
Since you are using Orchard you want to make sure that only the Orchard.Web project gets published so do not use DeployOnBuild=true. This will attempt to deploy every web project in the solution, which is a lot for Orchard. Instead follow the guidelines here to see how to deploy only the web project: http://sedodream.com/2013/03/06/HowToPublishOneWebProjectFromASolution.aspx