I want to develop a tool that will automatically do a build of the a project in Visual Studio,everynight ,at a specified time. Is there a way i can achieve this?

Thanks,

Chirpy

Use msbuild: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164311.aspx

Or have a look at team city or cruise control, which are continous integration products that do just that (well they do a lot more than that too, such as fetching the latest version of your code from source control, running unit tests etc.)

http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET

Hope it helps

chirpygal:

I want to develop a tool that will automatically do a build of the a project in Visual Studio,everynight ,at a specified time. Is there a way i can achieve this?

You can create a batch file .bat that uses command line to do all this.

e.g.

1 using command line to get latest from VSS or any other source code repository to a clean location

2 build the solution in release mode using command line again, VS has the devenv.exe file that you can execute in command line

3. you can then create a windows scheduled task to run at a certain time
 

Hi.

 I think you had better using CCNET.

 It is able to use automatic from compile to deploy only one click (server to copy).

source sync(p4, source control)  --> compile --> nunit --> fxcop --> deploy(network copy) 

If you have any question(ccnet.config setting)  let me know.

 Thank you.