February 2008
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CC.Net File System Source Control speed up
Yesterday I mentioned that the file system source control provider in CC.Net was a little inefficient. I speculated as to how it might be working and how it might be improved. Well, as the saying goes, assume makes an ass out of you and … -
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CC.Net and Robocopy
I’m continuing to tune my continuous integration system. Today I switched the ‘deploy’ projects from using a CC.Net file system source control task to do the deployment to using Robocopy. This has sped things up nicely and … -
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Currently Reading: Windows via C/C++
I’ve just picked up a copy of Windows Via C/C++ (PRO-Developer) by Jeffrey Richter and Christophe Nasarre. This is ‘version 5’ of the book that started out as Advanced Windows NT (Advanced Windows). The book has been … -
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Another CCNet patch
Here is another patch for CruiseControl.Net. This patch provides support for a Robocopy SourceControl provider. This gives a significant performance increase over the FileSystem SourceControl provider. To integrate this I needed to adjust … -
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Process management using Jobs on Windows
One of the problems I currently have with CruiseControl.Net is that some of my tests spawn multiple processes; such as server tests which run the development environment, which runs a batch file to start a server (or two) and then run a … -
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Major Vista Overlapped I/O change
I’m still reading the Richter book, highly recommended even if you’ve read one of the earlier versions. In fact it’s possibly MORE highly recommended IF you’ve read one of the earlier versions… It seems that … -
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Latest release of licensed socket server code: 5.2.1
The latest release of The Server Framework is now available. This release includes the following changes. All code now builds with VC6, VS2002, VS2003, VS2005 and VS2008. The VS2005 and VS2008 builds support x86 and x64. This is the first … -
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When are asynchronous file writes not asynchronous...
For some time I’ve had a class which implements asynchronous file writing. It’s the basis for a logging class that some of my clients use. The class builds on several of the classes in The Server Framework and uses I/O … -
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.Net Abstract base classes vs. interfaces
An interesting piece here from Phil Haack about why they decided to use an abstract base class rather than an interface. Versioning is always a complicated thing for library designers. I know that I’m lucky in that I don’t have …
