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CareBear — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:36:13 GMT

Automaton - Continuous Integration engine for TFS

THIS PROJECT IS CLOSED, CI FEATURES WAS ADDED TO TFS 2008 AND IMPROVED IN 2010.

15th March 2009: As there is now widespread use of TFS 2008, which has the CI-features that Automaton made available for TFS 2005, we've decided that this project won't receive any more attention. If someone is willing to take over the support and maintenance of Automaton, please leave a comment in the discussions forum.

20th November 2007: Visual Studio 2008 is released, waiting for Team Foundation Server 2008! When TFS 2008 is out, we will progress to update Automaton to include new and addition features ontop of the new CI-features that is built into the TFS. It is undecided whether we will continue to support both 2005 and 2008, but we will probably make a code branch and do a removal of old code that has now been implemented by Microsoft.

15th April 2007: New member on the team, welcome "GlennHaworth"!

2nd March 2007: New member on the team, welcome "smartway"!

19th November 2006: New release with filtering on changes and bug fixes.

3rd November 2006: update with fixes released (1.0.10)!

11th October 2006: We made video tutorials for you: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=automation&title=Videos

Automaton is a Continuous Integration engine for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Automaton will monitor your source code repository and automatically run the correct team builds that you create within Visual Studio. Build reports can be view through a web site, and your development team can get notifications on e-mail or MSN Messenger when there is problem building the source code.

Click links to read more about Automaton...

Easy Setup and Configuration

One of the important goals with the development of Automaton was to utilize the TFS as much as possible and make an installation and configuration that was simple and quick. After installation, there is a web based wizard that will guide you through the required settings. When these are configured and saved, the Automaton dashboard will display all your Team Build Types that you define using the Team Explorer within Visual Studio IDE.

Automaton supports Visual Studio 2005 and Team Foundation Server. Automaton supports only the use of Team Foundation Source Control, there is currently no support for Visual Source Safe.

Smart Integration

TFS can have multiple team projects and each project can have multiple solutions, with multiple projects, and ontop of that the team projects can have multiple team build types defined. What Automaton does when a developer checks in some code, it will be smart and choose which team build type to run. This makes sure you don't build anything unnecessary which gives you a faster and better integration.

View the Automaton blog: http://fanms.com/blogs/projects/archive/tags/Automaton/default.aspx

Automaton is available for free and source code is licensed under Shared Source License.

Automaton is created and developed by Sondre Bjellås (http://www.fanms.com/).

Automaton
au-tom-a-ton
3. something capable of acting automatically or without an external motive force.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Automaton

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CareBear — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:32:04 GMT

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Automaton - Continuous Integration engine for TFS

15th March 2009: As there is now widespread use of TFS 2008, which has the CI-features that Automaton made available for TFS 2005, we've decided that this project won't receive any more attention. If someone is willing to take over the support and maintenance of Automaton, please leave a comment in the discussions forum.

20th November 2007: Visual Studio 2008 is released, waiting for Team Foundation Server 2008! When TFS 2008 is out, we will progress to update Automaton to include new and addition features ontop of the new CI-features that is built into the TFS. It is undecided whether we will continue to support both 2005 and 2008, but we will probably make a code branch and do a removal of old code that has now been implemented by Microsoft.

15th April 2007: New member on the team, welcome "GlennHaworth"!

2nd March 2007: New member on the team, welcome "smartway"!

19th November 2006: New release with filtering on changes and bug fixes.

3rd November 2006: update with fixes released (1.0.10)!

11th October 2006: We made video tutorials for you: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=automation&title=Videos

Automaton is a Continuous Integration engine for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Automaton will monitor your source code repository and automatically run the correct team builds that you create within Visual Studio. Build reports can be view through a web site, and your development team can get notifications on e-mail or MSN Messenger when there is problem building the source code.

Click links to read more about Automaton...

Easy Setup and Configuration

Smart Integration

UPDATED WIKI: Home

CareBear — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:50:00 GMT

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Automaton - Continuous Integration engine for TFS

20th November 2007: Visual Studio 2008 is released, waiting for Team Foundation Server 2008! When TFS 2008 is out, we will progress to update Automaton to include new and addition features ontop of the new CI-features that is built into the TFS. It is undecided whether we will continue to support both 2005 and 2008, but we will probably make a code branch and do a removal of old code that has now been implemented by Microsoft.

15th April 2007: New member on the team, welcome "GlennHaworth"!

2nd March 2007: New member on the team, welcome "smartway"!

19th November 2006: New release with filtering on changes and bug fixes.

3rd November 2006: update with fixes released (1.0.10)!

11th October 2006: We made video tutorials for you: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=automation&title=Videos

Automaton is a Continuous Integration engine for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Automaton will monitor your source code repository and automatically run the correct team builds that you create within Visual Studio. Build reports can be view through a web site, and your development team can get notifications on e-mail or MSN Messenger when there is problem building the source code.

Click links to read more about Automaton...

Easy Setup and Configuration

Smart Integration

UPDATED WIKI: Home

CareBear — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:48:54 GMT

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Automaton - Continuous Integration engine for TFS

20th November 2007: Visual Studio 2008 is released, waiting for Team Foundation Server 2008! When TFS 2008 is out, we will progress to update Automaton to include new and addition features ontop of the new CI-features that is built into the TFS. It is undecided whether we will continue to support both 2005 and 2008, but we will probably make a code branch and do a removal of old code that has now been implemented by Microsoft.

15th April 2007: New member on the team, welcome "GlennHaworth"!

2nd March 2007: New member on the team, welcome "smartway"!

19th November 2006: New release with filtering on changes and bug fixes.

3rd November 2006: update with fixes released (1.0.10)!

11th October 2006: We made video tutorials for you: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=automation&title=Videos

Automaton is a Continuous Integration engine for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Automaton will monitor your source code repository and automatically run the correct team builds that you create within Visual Studio. Build reports can be view through a web site, and your development team can get notifications on e-mail or MSN Messenger when there is problem building the source code.

Click links to read more about Automaton...

Easy Setup and Configuration

Smart Integration

UPDATED WIKI: Home

CareBear — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:48:42 GMT

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Automaton - Continuous Integration engine for TFS

*20th November 2007: Visual Studio 2008 is released, waiting for Team Foundation Server 2008! When TFS 2008 is out, we will progress to update Automaton to include new and addition features ontop of the new CI-features that is built into the TFS. It is undecided whether we will continue to support both 2005 and 2008, but we will probably make a code branch and do a removal of old code that has now been implemented by Microsoft.

15th April 2007: New member on the team, welcome "GlennHaworth"!

2nd March 2007: New member on the team, welcome "smartway"!

19th November 2006: New release with filtering on changes and bug fixes.

3rd November 2006: update with fixes released (1.0.10)!

11th October 2006: We made video tutorials for you: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=automation&title=Videos

Automaton is a Continuous Integration engine for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Automaton will monitor your source code repository and automatically run the correct team builds that you create within Visual Studio. Build reports can be view through a web site, and your development team can get notifications on e-mail or MSN Messenger when there is problem building the source code.

Click links to read more about Automaton...

Easy Setup and Configuration

Smart Integration

UPDATED WIKI: Home

CareBear — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:46:55 GMT

News Feeds

Automaton - Continuous Integration engine for TFS

15th April 2007: New member on the team, welcome "GlennHaworth"!

2nd March 2007: New member on the team, welcome "smartway"!

19th November 2006: New release with filtering on changes and bug fixes.

3rd November 2006: update with fixes released (1.0.10)!

11th October 2006: We made video tutorials for you: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=automation&title=Videos

Automaton is a Continuous Integration engine for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Automaton will monitor your source code repository and automatically run the correct team builds that you create within Visual Studio. Build reports can be view through a web site, and your development team can get notifications on e-mail or MSN Messenger when there is problem building the source code.

Click links to read more about Automaton...

Easy Setup and Configuration

Smart Integration

UPDATED WIKI: Home

CareBear — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:46:24 GMT

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Welcome to Automaton

Easy Setup and Configuration

Smart Integration

UPDATED WIKI: Home

CareBear — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:26:30 GMT

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Welcome to Automaton

Easy Setup and Configuration

Smart Integration

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CareBear — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:24:44 GMT

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Welcome to Automaton

2nd March 2007: New member on the team, welcome "smartway"!

19th November 2006: New release with filtering on changes and bug fixes.

3rd November 2006: update with fixes released (1.0.10)!

11th October 2006: We made video tutorials for you: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=automation&title=Videos

Automaton is a Continuous Integration engine for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Automaton will monitor your source code repository and automatically run the correct team builds that you create within Visual Studio. Build reports can be view through a web site, and your development team can get notifications on e-mail or MSN Messenger when there is problem building the source code.

Click links to read more about Automaton...

Easy Setup and Configuration

Smart Integration

UPDATED WIKI: Home

CareBear — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:24:33 GMT

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Welcome to Automaton

*2nd March 2007: New member on the team, welcome "smartway"!

19th November 2006: New release with filtering on changes and bug fixes.

3rd November 2006: update with fixes released (1.0.10)!

11th October 2006: We made video tutorials for you: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=automation&title=Videos

Automaton is a Continuous Integration engine for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Automaton will monitor your source code repository and automatically run the correct team builds that you create within Visual Studio. Build reports can be view through a web site, and your development team can get notifications on e-mail or MSN Messenger when there is problem building the source code.

Click links to read more about Automaton...

Easy Setup and Configuration

Smart Integration

UPDATED WIKI: TipsAndTricks

CareBear — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:48:38 GMT

Tips & Tricks

This page will contain various tips and tricks you can do with your Automaton installation. This information will form the basis of a future manual/user guide for Automaton.

Trick: Use Registry for Server settings

I've added the ability to put server and user account settings for TFS connection in the Windows registry.

This is useful during development, as you don't have to make the web.config readable, and you don't have to walk through the wizard.

Put the following in a .reg file and run it on your local machine/server so you won't have to use the configuration wizard after an upgrade:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Automaton
"Server"="server"
"Username"="user"
"Password"="password"
"Domain"="MyDomain"

(Put square brackets around the first line)

It will first try to read from the web.config, but if that does not contain a server value, it'll try to find in the registry.

UPDATED WIKI: TipsAndTricks

CareBear — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:47:39 GMT

Tips & Tricks

This page will contain various tips and tricks you can do with your Automaton installation. This information will form the basis of a future manual/user guide for Automaton.

Trick: Use Registry for Server settings

I've added the ability to put server and user account settings for TFS connection in the Windows registry.

This is useful during development, as you don't have to make the web.config readable, and you don't have to walk through the wizard.

Put the following in a .reg file and run it on your local machine/server so you won't have to use the configuration wizard after an upgrade:

HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Automaton
"Server"="server"
"Username"="user"
"Password"="password"
"Domain"="MyDomain"

(Put square brackets around the first line)

It will first try to read from the web.config, but if that does not contain a server value, it'll try to find in the registry.

UPDATED WIKI: TipsAndTricks

CareBear — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:47:14 GMT

Tips & Tricks

This page will contain various tips and tricks you can do with your Automaton installation. This information will form the basis of a future manual/user guide for Automaton.

Trick: Use Registry for Server settings

HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Automaton

"Server"="server"
"Username"="user"
"Password"="password"
"Domain"="MyDomain"

(Replace the | with square brackets)

It will first try to read from the web.config, but if that does not contain a server value, it'll try to find in the registry.

UPDATED WIKI: TipsAndTricks

CareBear — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:46:48 GMT

Tips & Tricks

This page will contain various tips and tricks you can do with your Automaton installation. This information will form the basis of a future manual/user guide for Automaton.

Trick: Use Registry for Server settings

I've added the ability to put server and user account settings for TFS connection in the Windows registry.

This is useful during development, as you don't have to make the web.config readable, and you don't have to walk through the wizard.

Put the following in a .reg file and run it on your local machine/server so you won't have to use the configuration wizard after an upgrade:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Automaton
"Server"="server"
"Username"="user"
"Password"="password"
"Domain"="MyDomain"

It will first try to read from the web.config, but if that does not contain a server value, it'll try to find in the registry.

UPDATED WIKI: TipsAndTricks

CareBear — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:44:40 GMT

Tips & Tricks

This page will contain various tips and tricks you can do with your Automaton installation. This information will form the basis of a future manual/user guide for Automaton.

Trick: Use Registry for Server settings

I've added the ability to put server and user account settings for TFS connection in the Windows registry.

This is useful during development, as you don't have to make the web.config readable, and you don't have to walk through the wizard.

Put the following in a .reg file and run it on your local machine/server so you won't have to use the configuration wizard after an upgrade:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Automaton
"Server"="server"
"Username"="user"
"Password"="password"
"Domain"="MyDomain"

It will first try to read from the web.config, but if that does not contain a server value, it'll try to find in the registry.

UPDATED WIKI: TipsAndTricks

CareBear — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:44:18 GMT

Tips & Tricks

This page will contain various tips and tricks you can do with your Automaton installation. This information will form the basis of a future manual/user guide for Automaton.

Tip: Use Registry for Server settings

I've added the ability to put server and user account settings for TFS connection in the Windows registry.

This is useful during development, as you don't have to make the web.config readable, and you don't have to walk through the wizard.

Put the following in a .reg file and run it on your local machine/server so you won't have to use the configuration wizard after an upgrade:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Automaton
"Server"="server"
"Username"="user"
"Password"="password"
"Domain"="MyDomain"

It will first try to read from the web.config, but if that does not contain a server value, it'll try to find in the registry.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

CareBear — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:42:11 GMT

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Welcome to Automaton

19th November: New release with filtering on changes and bug fixes.

3th November: update with fixes released (1.0.10)!

11th October: We made video tutorials for you: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=automation&title=Videos

Automaton is a Continuous Integration engine for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Automaton will monitor your source code repository and automatically run the correct team builds that you create within Visual Studio. Build reports can be view through a web site, and your development team can get notifications on e-mail or MSN Messenger when there is problem building the source code.

Click links to read more about Automaton...

Easy Setup and Configuration

Smart Integration

UPDATED WIKI: MediaCoverage

CareBear — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:25:06 GMT

Media Coverage of Automaton

Buck Hodges (Microsoft) (blog)
http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/08/09/more-continuous-integration.aspx

Team System Widgets (TFS add-ins list)
http://accentient.com/widgets.aspx

Bernardo Heynemann (blog)
http://manicprogrammer.com/cs/blogs/heynemann/archive/2006/08/10/21.aspx

The Web Jedi (blog)
http://www.thewebjedi.com/cs/blogs/meditations/archive/2006/11/07/44.aspx

"we also use Automaton to perform continuous integration - ironically, Automaton was the easiest component of this entire mess to get set up properly"

UPDATED WIKI: MediaCoverage

CareBear — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:24:45 GMT

Media Coverage of Automaton

Buck Hodges (Microsoft) (blog)
http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/08/09/more-continuous-integration.aspx

Team System Widgets (TFS add-ins list)
http://accentient.com/widgets.aspx

Bernardo Heynemann (blog)
http://manicprogrammer.com/cs/blogs/heynemann/archive/2006/08/10/21.aspx

The Web Jedi (blog)
http://www.thewebjedi.com/cs/blogs/meditations/default.aspx

"we also use Automaton to perform continuous integration - ironically, Automaton was the easiest component of this entire mess to get set up properly"