Martin Fowler hat seinen populären, jedoch in die Jahre gekommenen Artikel zu Continuous Integration auf den aktuellen Stand gebracht.

Martin Woodward hat ein Open Source VSTS Plugin entwickelt, das CC.NET in VSTS integriert.

If you did not attend Chris' Techtalk but you're interested in Continous Integration, you should read Mike Roberts' wrap-up of "How to setup a .NET Development Tree" as HTML oder PDF.

This monday, the RC 1 of CruiseControl.NET has been released.

There are some big 'top level' changes in this release:

• CCTray has been completely re-written. The version that ships with 1.0 has configuration files that are incompatible with those used by prior releases. In other words, throw away all your old CCTrays, and use the new one. CCTray now ships with its own installer which you can distribute to anyone who wants to monitor your build server.
• The new CCTray has many more features than the old, and is much better for organisations or teams with multiple projects or build servers.
• CruiseControl.NET now has native MSBuild support for .NET 2 . Even if you call MSBuild from a NAnt script rather than CruiseControl.NET directly you'll want to look into using the CruiseControl.NET MSBuild XMLLogger and the MSBuild XSL files.
• The old (single project) web application has been deleted, and CCNet now only ships with the Web Dashboard.
• The main CCNet installer now ships with just the Build Server and Web Dashboard - use the separate CCTray installer for CCTray.
• Integration Properties (passed to NAnt, for example) have been changed to be CamelCased rather than period.separated so you may need to update your build scripts. These properties are now also passed through the <exec> and <msbuild> tasks.

Just right after Chris' TechTalk "Tools zur erfolgreichen Softwareentwicklung mit .NET" I started installing the tools neccessary to have a "good" build process as shown at the TechTalk.

Because I'm working with .NET 2.0 Framework 2.0, I wanted to use MSBuild with CruiseControl.NET  instead of NAnt.

If you want to do so, this article may be helpful.