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I’ve been searching for a really easy way to automate putting together builds of Ideal BB.NET. Putting together a build usually takes about a day to do and has a lot of small steps. For example:

Do a clean release build in visual studioCopy the files to a new directoryClean out the web.config filesRemove read-only on the filesRemove custom avatars and uploaded filesRun codeveil on the DLL’s to obfuscate themCreate directories for each of the builds CORP, LITE, etc..Run SQL DIFF on the new database and create upgrade scriptsZip up each release folderCopy the files up to the web server.

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Now that Ideal BB.NET 3.1.7 is out, I thought it would be a good time to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008. I haven’t had a chance yet to go through the new .NET framework 3.5 to see what benifits (if any) that it would have on Ideal BB.NET, but Visual Studio 2008 lets you target .NET 2.0 apps so I figured upgrading wouldn’t hurt me. I was correct. The upgrade went smoothly and everything seems to work fine.

I’m still wanting to go through the codeand upgrade a lot of the code to .NET 2.0 features, like using Generics instead of ArrayLists, etc.. But that stuff is going to have to wait until I finish some of those new features we’ve got planned.

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