Loren Halvorson's Blog

If you haven't checked out the free Visual Studio add-in for unit testing, TestDriven.NET in a while, do yourself a favor. Jamie Cansdale and Grant Drake have been busy.

Scott Hanselman's most recent Hanselminutes podcast is on continuous integration builds. He talks about a bunch of my favorite tools like CruiseControl.NET, NAnt, FxCop, NCover, NUnit, WiX and more. A worthwhile way to spend the commute if you are interested in learning more about continuous integration.

I'm sure many of you have already seen this site advertising the Waterfall 2006 conference, but it's definitely worth a look. Every time I go to this site I find something that makes me laugh out loud.

It was very interesting to see version 2.0.3719.0 of WiX, which was released January 19, 2006, contains NAnt tasks for the candle and light command line tools. This replaces the <exec> tasks you had to do before.

Version 1.8.0.1696 of FlexWiki was released on Dec 2nd, 2005. This is mostly a bug fix release. I upgraded with no problems at all, and many annoying bugs have been fixed.

This is somewhat old news, but I thought I'd mention in case anyone is still running old versions of CruiseControl.NET that CruiseControl.NET 1.0 was recently released. The upgrade from RC2 was relatively painless except that any plug-ins you may have compiled against previous versions will need to be recompiled. (I think it's because of the new version of the strong-named NetReflector assembly). So far it's running well with no issues. The updated CCTray has also been getting the thumbs up from our developers.

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This is part two of my posts on features I recently discovered in WiX. Adding a UI to your installer is extremely simple now. Far easier than the way I used to do it. This technique is mentioned in the excellent WiX tutorial. It is also being used by the Votive install which you can look at in the WiX source on SourceForge.