Hi there,
Just before I upload to our website I want to go through my 30 web applications and compile them all before I FTP.
At the moment I open them each individually in Visual Studio, press f5, close them and then go onto the next.
Is there any way I can write a program that goes through a list of folders and compiles the projects?

Dougie
(A Scotsman writing from South Africa)

Did u try to compile project in [u]Command line (RUN)</u>.
I guess u use that within a for in a program & compile it.

Im not sure, but u could try.

Always:),
Hovik Melkomian.

Hi there,

Take a look at Nant: http://nant.sourceforge.net/

This program is designed for automatic builds of .NET projects.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Thanks for your help
(1) Any idea how much the nant product is, I couldnt find a price on the website.
(2) If you do command line compiles (which I haven't done much)
(a) how to you compile a whole project into a dll, I have only compiled individual .aspx.cs pages , one at a time.
(b) can I load in a file with the commands for 20 applications to compile or do I need to type it all in myself.

Dougie

Nant is open source, so no charges apply. Read their documentation for more information about this.

I thought you were talking about a Visual Studio .NET solution, but on reading your post again, it looks like you're talking about precompiling ASPX pages with inline script, right?

If that is the case, look at "Yet another pre-compile tool for ASP.NET web sites" located here: http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/AS...recompiler.asp

Cheers,

Imar

I have now downloaded and installed Nant. So I am somewhat further on! I have also read their documentation.
I have no idea what you mean by inline script.
I dont really mind if its VS or not. I just need to recompile 20 projects before I upload every time and dont want to do it manually by opening each sollution in VS and pressing f5 in each of 20 projects 3 times a day!
So my question now is (presuming you know and use Nant)

What would be the syntax in Nant for compiling a project of about 12 aspx pages and some classes (as above) as opposed to just a page.
And how exactly do I execute that script with nant.

Thanks.

Dougie

In ASP.NET there are basically two ways to create pages: The Notepad / Web Matrix way and the Visual Studio .NET way.

When you create your pages in Notepad, the Web Matrix, or even in IDEs like Dreamweaver, all code, like VB.NET or C# code is place inline in the page. So the .aspx page contains both the HTML and controls' markup and the programming code for Click and Load events.
When you request a page in the browser the page will be compiled o the fly, the result is cached for future requests and then the page is executed.

Visual Studio .NET, on the other hand, has a "code behind" model. The code you write is located in a separate file from the markup (in an .aspx.cs or .aspx.vb file). Before you can run your page, you'll need to compile it into 1 big assembly, a DLL file. This DLL, together with the ASPX pages is then uploaded to the server. When an aspx page is loaded, the .NET framework checks the Inherits attribute of the page to see what class the page inherits from and then locates that class in the assembly.
Note that there is no need to upload the .cs, .vb or .resx files to the remote server.

So, to advice you how to proceed, it's important to know what model you're using.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
While typing this post, I was listening to: Code by Faithless (Track 10 from the album: Outrospective) What's This?

Ok, I understand. We use the VS way with codebehind .cs files.
So we are compiling 20 folders with about 6-30 pages each into 20 dlls and then uploading the 6-30 aspx pages in their folders as well.
So thats what I need to be able to do with Nant.

Dougie

I suggest you check out the Fundamentals section in the user's documentation:

http://nant.sourceforge.net/help/fun...als/index.html

The simple example is a good start:

http://nant.sourceforge.net/help/fun...000000022.html

I am not too experienced with Nant, so I cannot recommend best practices in compiling ASP.NET apps.
Check out this thread for more info: http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11252

Hopefully, Peter (planoie on this forum) is listening in. He has quite some experience with Nant.
Peter???

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
While typing this post, I was listening to: Babylon by The Tea Party (Track 8 from the album: Transmission) What's This?