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Build .NET solutions/projects using cake 2

Cake is a powerful tool that implements build functionality for various .NET solutions. It can extend your build with custom parameters and values that you want to reference on a CI/CD pipeline or in your metadata. In this article I will demonstrate how to use cake in order to build your .NET solution.

First create a Console App or another .NET solution that you want to build.

create a new console application

For this demonstration I will use the default template that is provided from cake website. You should rename and point to your solution name, in my case the solution is named ConsoleApp1.

The default build script includes three tasks.

  • The first one cleans output of previous builds.
  • The second one will build your application
  • The third will run .net tests.

In the build script provided below, I have provided as configuration Debug. You can change this value on the configuration line.

var target = Argument("target", "Build");
var configuration = Argument("configuration", "Debug");

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// TASKS
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


Information("Beginning cleaning application.....");
Task("Clean")
    .WithCriteria(c => HasArgument("rebuild"))
    .Does(() =>
{
    CleanDirectory($"./bin/{configuration}");
});

Information("Beginning building application.....");

Task("Build")
    .IsDependentOn("Clean")
    .Does(() =>
{
    DotNetCoreBuild("./ConsoleApp1.sln", new DotNetCoreBuildSettings
    {
        Configuration = configuration,
    });
});


Information("DotNetCoreTest task .....");

Task("Test")
    .IsDependentOn("Build")
    .Does(() =>
{
    DotNetCoreTest("./ConsoleApp1.sln", new DotNetCoreTestSettings
    {
        Configuration = configuration,
        NoBuild = true,
    });
});

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// EXECUTION
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

RunTarget(target);

In order to build you should place the above file on your solution directory with the name build.cake. Then you will have to run dotnet cake and the build will run.

build output

https://cakebuild.net/

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Export Github Organization Dependencies as text

Github has introduced a powerful feature to get complete view on your project dependencies. This feature is available per project but also for a whole organization which could contain hundred of projects.

You can get all your dependencies for your organization using the below link (ORG should be replaced with your GitHub organization name)

https://github.com/orgs/ORG/insights/dependencies

I was searching a method to get massively these dependencies exported as a file. I could obtain this information using the below code with the inspect element section of Chrome browser.

elements = document.getElementsByClassName("js-navigation-open");
for (var i=0; i <elements.length; i++ ){
    var singleElement = elements[i];
    console.log(singleElement.outerText);

The result is a list with the names of the dependencies.

Unfortunately this method will only get the dependencies that are present on each page that you are currently browsing.

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Move files to replicated datastore using bat script

You can use a very simple bat script in order to automatically move files from a specific windows disk to another one.

An example for this particular scenario is a case that you want to copy files from a disk to another one that resides in a datastore that is replicated. You can automatically move those files from the first disk to the second one in order to get them replicated.

All you have to do, is to create an automatic task with windows task scheduler that its action will be to run the following bat script.

xcopy /s/e/y C:\Users\USER1\Desktop\folder1 D:\Users\folder2
echo %time% %date% >> D:\Users\folder2\log.txt