an outstanding book for development teams wanting to build a reliable, automated delivery system.
— Jim Holmes, Slashdot Contributor
It covers NAnt so thoroughly it's amazing.
— Bill Ryan, Bill's House O Insomnia
...a nice tutorial for NAnt and CruiseControl.NET.
— Lasse Koskela, JavaRanch Sheriff
At first glance, building and deploying applications seem simple enough. But in fact, difficult releases without any confidence or processes backing them are very common. Integration and management of a new deployment can be laborious and fraught with risk. So as team size and volume of projects grow, management becomes more difficult and risk more pronounced.
This book is a guide to the implementation of good processes in a .NET environment. Author Marc Holmes focuses on actual implementation, and details patterns and anti-patterns to watch out for. He also provides a practical and in-depth look at NAnt and CruiseControl.NET, and solutions to common problem scenarios.
For additional insights, visit the author's blog, Marc: My Words.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good information on NAnt and CruiseControl
This serves as a good introduction to NAnt and NAnt contrib. Working through the excercises was helpful. The introduction for CC.NET is also good.
I recommend this for anyone new to NAnt and CruiseControl. I caution the use of Continuous Integration. It is an excellent way to immediately identify build and integration issues; however, you have to beware of "false positives". For example, an auto-build everytime something is checked in will determine if that checkin causes a build failure ... Read More
Rating: - Poorly-written and painful to read
This book is simply arduous to read. I kept looking to the "About the Author" section for a hint that perhaps this was a translation from the Russian original, or something. Vague sentences, paragraphs, and overall structure haunt this book, and make it a task to read. Did this book even have an editor?
Rating: - great tools explanations
Holmes gives you a very motivated guide to using NAnt and CruiseControl.NET. I'm from the linux/Java world, and am familiar with Ant. So the NAnt discussion was very relevant to my experience. Holmes explicitly says that this book is not a comprehensive guide to the abilities of either package. But in some ways, while not comprehensive, it may well be better than a text devoted to either [or both]. You can see in Holmes' text, very plausible ways for why and how you can use those packages. Going through ... Read More
Rating: - A decent introduction to NAnt and CC.NET
I picked up "Expert .NET Delivery Using NAnt and CruiseControl.NET" as a developer familiar with the original open source projects, Ant and CruiseControl, from the world of Java development. I have been long interested in how "the .NET people" do things even though my personal experience with .NET technologies has been limited to doing a day of training every now and then. From this perspective, I have to say I find a lot of good stuff in this book but it's still missing that something. The author, Marc ... Read More
Rating: - A Must-Read for Anyone Doing Significant .Net Development
I picked up this book last week and within a few pages already had major ideas for my build system. I had been struggling by with a very basic, very weak continuous integration system using CruiseControl.Net and NAnt, but I had no idea the kind of power these tools give you, nor did I have a real understanding of what a good enterprise build system should do.
Well, that problem has been rectified. After reading most of this book I was armed with the knowledge I needed to go out and put together ... Read More
- Good information on NAnt and CruiseControl
- Poorly-written and painful to read
- great tools explanations
