Overview

Visual Build enables developers and build masters to create an automated, repeatable process for building and deploying software. Visual Build can automate common build tasks such as:

•	Retrieving source code, checking in changes, and labeling in version control systems

•	Building Microsoft, Embarcadero and other source code projects

•	Setting and retrieving project versions

•	Compiling help projects

•	Creating installers

•	Copying, deleting, renaming, listing, and setting file attributes

•	Burning files to CD or DVD

•	Creating, updating and extracting from ZIP files

•	Deploying files to or from a web site, FTP server, or network path

•	Securely transferring information using SFTP, SSH, or SSL

•	Deploying applications that utilize Microsoft COM+, SQL Server, and IIS

•	Manipulating virtual machines

•	Sending e-mail and newsgroup posts to notify of build success or failure

•	Logging of all build activities and generating log reports

•	Performing automated, scheduled, remote, continuous, and online builds

•	Performing test-driven development

•	Writing to and reading from text, XML, and INI files

•	Search and replace and read text from files

•	Reading and writing registry settings

•	Performing build operations in parallel

•	Registering type libraries, components, and .NET assemblies

•	Running unit test cases and generating documentation

•	Starting and stopping Windows services

•	Much, much more

It executes all those tedious steps that must be performed over and over again, while ensuring that all steps have been successfully completed. A detailed status of each step is displayed during the build and optionally logged to a file. If any step fails, Visual Build pinpoints the error and then continues from the point of failure after the problem has been corrected.

Visual Build provides built-in support for Microsoft Visual Studio and Embarcadero / Borland / CodeGear Delphi, RAD Studio, C++Builder, and more.

It's easy to put Visual Build to work doing all that manual labor for you so you can focus on more important things. It will help you automate the build process without a huge commitment of time, and it works with the tools you're using today.

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