I am trying to achieve following workflow using command line:
Build the project using specific variables overriding via command line (for example I have $(buildVersion) variable in publish config that has some value. I would like to override the $(buildVersion) by entered value command line. The output of this step is dacpac file
Generate the publish script based on the generated dacpac file and the actual database
I tried to use both SqlPackage.exe and MSBuild.exe tools. However I can't get desired effect as:
I can't find the way how to build project with SqlPackage
I can't find the way how to pass variables to MSBuild
What I can now:
I can build the project using MSBuild
I can generate the publish script with SqlPackage
The stuff in a publish profile for a database project doesn't affect the build step where the dacpac is created, after all you can have as many publish profiles as you like for a single project.
When generating the publish script with sqlpackage.exe, you can pass variables like
sqlpackage.exe /action:script /sourcefile:mydacpac.dacpac /v:BuildNumber=xyz
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I am trying to package Service fabric application, when i do that i have application manifest and service manifest files but i want to include application parameters and Publish profiles as well.
Not sure what CI system you're using but typically there's three parts to make it all work
Package your application output + manifests. This is basically the package location output you get from doing an MSBuild on your sfproj. In below, I'm assuming CI build artifact output go to '$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)'
/t:Package /p:PackageLocation=$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\applicationpackage
Include a step in your CI build output to copy the the parameter and profile files to another folder - e.g. $(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\projectartifacts
**\PublishProfiles\*.xml
**\ApplicationParameters\*.xml
Deploy your application. For this, have a look at the Deploy-FabricApplication.ps1 script that's created by Visual Studio when your first created your .sfproj Service Fabric project. This is also used by Visual Studio when you deploy your application to your local development cluster and you essentially have to perform the same steps to deploy to another cluster.
A simple example assuming your CI artifact output exists in "$(SF_PackagePath)"
Deploy-FabricApplication.ps1 -ApplicationPackagePath "$(SF_PackagePath)\applicationpackage" -PublishProfileFile "$(SF_PackagePath)\projectartifacts\Local.1Node.xml"
I've built a small desktop application with which I am trying to use a Setup project to allow other users to install it. But whenever I run this installer, it does not produce an executable file. This is my first time making a setup project.
My solution contains two projects. One is the setup project which installs the primary output from the other project. The other project is a WPF App that consists of two xaml files, a xaml.cs file for each, an App.config file, and an icon. It also has a few dependencies including one Assembly, two Frameworks, and a handful of Packages. The app works exactly as intended whenever I start a Visual Studio debugging instance on either Debug or Release configurations.
I followed these instructions to build my Setup and deploy my app.
Whenever I ran the resulting Setup, it installed an XML configuration file, a JSON file, a main application dll file, and a bunch of dll files for my assemblies. I looked into some resources on how to run the main dll file properly, only (A) I'm completely stumped by everything I find on that topic, and (B) I would rather just produce an executable file anyway, since I intend for this Setup project to be used by other people and it would be inconvenient to ask said others to jump through the same hoops just to run it.
Why does my Setup project not produce a .exe file? I see that a .exe file is produced in my bin folder whenever I build my project (and this .exe works), so I would think the setup project should also produce one of those, but it doesn't. What am I doing wrong with my Setup project or anything else?
The setup.exe is a bootstrapper over the setup.msi. We can install the content using .msi or by running .exe which inturn runs /gets the data from the msi. To enable setup.exe building, go to solution explorer -> project -> properties -> prerequisites. check the check box on the top "Create setup program to install prerequisite components". apply and rebuld the project. A setup.exe bootstrapper will be created allong with msi.
Switch to Release mode, then rebuild your setup project. If everything went well (check the output console), you'll find an MSI file inside {setup project folder}/bin/Release
In "system file" from your proyect installer, you shoud to add in "Application Folder" the next source = PublishItemsOutpuGroup. In my case functions well.
I am relatively new to Selenium WebDriver and a self learner. I have created a webDriver project which consists of different packages and have made use of Page Factory concepts extensively. I use TestNg framework to run the suite to generate my report. So my test cases are also following the TestNG framework concepts.
Now my team wants to use my script to be run at every build to test the sanity. The build team just wants to run my whole script by just a click. It can be shell script command or .exe or jar. Build team uses linux m/c and they dont have Ecplise , TestNg installed in their machine. Their intention is whenever build is given they want to run my script by just a click or a command in Command Prompt.( it has to be that simple for them) and a report should be generated in some location in hdfs
My script runs on FF version 32 and Selenium webDriver 2.44.0
Would really appreciate if someone could give me a solution that actually works for my requirement.
I found a similar query from someone but i am not sure if the answer still suits.
How to make Java executable Jar file of WebDriver project
Could somebody please give me a solution. Or the solution mentioned in the above link stil is the best?
Regards
There are few ways to do it:
Use CI tool (Jenkins): You can set up your project in Jenkins and it will allow you to run the project in single click. Jenkins also provides you an option to run the tests periodically so you can configure it in such a way that it will always get executed after certain time period.Jenkins is also capable to trigger the execution if there is any changes in source code of tests. I'd suggest to use this tool. https://jenkins-ci.org/
Use .bat or .sh file: I am not sure if you are using any build tool like ANT or Maven, if you are using any one of them then you can write a .bat or .sh file to run the tests. ANT
If you are not using any build tool then start using, it will help to run the tests in simplest way.For me to run entire suite, I just type below command in terminal from root directory of project
ant run -Dsuite=all
If you are more concerned about system configuration for e.g. the system which will be used by build team does not have a specific version of browser or specific required library. Then I'd suggest to keep all essentials like browser installation files, libraries in your project directory. This is not a good practice but yes it will help others to run the tests smoothly.
I would suggest just exporting a jar file for your project. All the libraries will be packaged together in the jar files(including TestNG) and you can simply double click on the jar file to start your tests.
External resources (if any), will have to be available for the jar file though. So, you can provide the jar file and the external resources together. The external resources might include your test data (if any) or Portable Firefox(if you are using the portable version).
Steps:
Right click on Project -> Export -> Runnable jar file
Give a name and file path for the jar file
Select option - Extract required libraries into generated JAR
And Finish
Troubleshooting:
Check the java version for the machines that you will be running your jar file on. Programs compiled with java 7 will mostly not run if the machine has java 6. Either compile with java 6 or update the jre on the target machines.
If the jar file does not launch, try using Jarfix.
How can I create, WinRT App package through command line. What i am trying to achieve is, By executing a .BAT file i need to build and create app package of my windows 8 application(.sln). I build the source code using msbuild command. But i don't know how to create app package using command. Anyone please help
Running msbuild command on the project should both build the project and generate the packages.
We have a VS 2010 solution that includes a few class library projects, a SQL Server 2008 database project and a Wix setup project. We are trying to get to a point where the following happens in the order specified:
Build the class library projects and the database project
Deploy the database project to generate the deploy .sql script
Build the Wix setup project.
The reason for the desired order is that the setup project requires the deployment .sql scripts as it will use these to generate/update the database on the machine that the msi is run.
It seems that there is no way within a Visual Studio solution file to create this type of build/deploy/build order. Is this correct?
Thanks
You could change the BeforeBuild target of the Wix project (*.wixproj) to deploy the database project before the build:
<ItemGroup>
<DatabaseProject Include="../Database1/Database1.dbproj"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
<MSBuild Projects="#(DatabaseProject)"
Targets="Deploy"
Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration);Platform=$(Platform)"/>
</Target>
How are you building it? You can change the build order in a solution from Visual Studio, granting you build it from Visual Studio. In Solution Explorer go to Build Order or so.
If you do it from command-line/MSBUILD you can build the first, then the second and the last project, easy, just call MSBUILD on each project, in the desired order. Thought there should be a finer control, I don't remember.
EDIT: It's called "Project Build Order", under the the solution node, it activates when you have more than 1 project in the solution.
I have tried this and get an error when I tried to reload the project after editing. However ignoring the error and reloading the project again worked fine and indeed building the Wix project triggers a deploy of the database project.