[Buildrelease management] visual build

1. Visual build

1) Visual build

Visual build allows developers and build personnel to easily create automatic and reusable build processes.

* Automatically build and release desktop software, games, web applications, and enterprise development and management tasks;

* Contains an intuitive GUI front-end that allows you to quickly create, debug, and manage projects;

* Provides built-in functions to support general building operations and third-party products;

* Improve the quality of product release, and quickly locate and fix defects;

* Visual build helps you repeat your work so that you can focus on more meaningful things;

 

2) Architecture

 

3) Home: http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/

 

2. Features of visual build

Visual build can automate common build tasks, such:

* ObtainSource code, Submit the modification and label the version control system );

* Construct Microsoft, Embarcadero, and other source code projects );

* Set and obtain the project version;

* Compile the help project;

* Create an installation file;

* Copy, delete, rename, list, and set object attributes;

* Burn a file to a CD or DVD;

* Create, update, and extract ZIP files;

* Deploy files from or like websites, FTP servers, or network paths;

* Secure information transmission through SFTP, ssh, and SSL;

* Deploy applications based on Microsoft COM +, MSMQ, SQL Server, and IISProgram;

* Maintain virtual machines;

* Send an email or newsgroup notification to notify the build of success or failure;

* Record all build activities and generate reports;

* Automatic, scheduled, remote, continuous, and online construction is performed;

* Test-driven development;

* Read and write text, XML, and INI files;

* Search for and replace text in the file;

* Read and write the registry;

* Perform the build operation in parallel;

* Register the Type Library, components, and. NET components;

* Run unit tests and generate documents;

* Start and Stop Windows Services;

* More...

Example 1:

 

And Figure 2:

 

To execute these steps in visual build, you must repeat them once and again to ensure that all the steps are successfully completed. The detailed status of each step is displayed during the build and can be selectively recorded to the file. If some steps fail, visual build can accurately determine the error. After the problem is modified, it can continue to build from where the error occurred.

 

Use Visual build

1) Use Visual build gui(visbuildpro.exe) to configure/debug/run the Build Process (project XML based)

2) Visual build process file ***. BLD (actually an XML file)

 

3) Use Visual build to run the Build Process on the command line

Visbuildcmd.exe ***. BLD

Complete!