i though, stopping and starting services on a remote maschine is almost impossible… but i was mistaken…
<target name=”startService”>
<exec program=”sc.exe”>
<arg line=”\\${server} start ${service.name}”/>
</exec>
</target>
thats it… just run the sc.exe… but i am not really unhappy of the simpleness of this solution 😛
compiling c# projects in visual studio is kinda easy… in nant it sould be to… after trying to build the whole solution, and reading the manual properly, <solution> can only be used with visual studio version 2002 and 2003… crap…
okt tryed it with <exec> and msbuild.exe… works 🙂 but then i figured outm that nant CAN compile projects… so back to the <solution>
<solution configuration=”debug”>
<projects>
<include name=”project.csproj” />
</projects>
</solution>
so this call opens the project.csprojfile and executes it… but normaly it throws an exception… this link provides the answer… just change the $(MSBuildToolsPath) to $(MSBuildBinPath)…
so compiling projects with nant is easy 🙂
first of all, i have no clue about visual studio and deployment… mainly i just compile it, then copy paste it. and yeah, that is really a bad way to do that… so i tought, why not simple use my old beloved ant? ok i know maven is the thing now to use, but i just need simple scripts to copy/deploy stuff… so nant will do, or have to…
this is it 🙂 ok currently its only usable as a command line, but its working 🙂 if i am able to write scripts is something completly different…
on the other hand visual studio should be able to execute these kind of scripts… ok finding a tool was hard, but there is one: NAntAddIn
installing it on a Visual Studio 2010 is not really trivial, but with link its easy…
i had to restart the visual studio, because the NAntAddIn did not print stuff in the output window. worked afterwards
so NAnt is now up and running… we will see, how it can be used by my mighty hands… 😛