AntEater

anteater.zip (14,9 MB)
AntEater is a Visual Studio Package that extends the MSBuild integration of Visual Studio. It provides a visual editor for build files and allows the execution of any target within a build file. The current release is built for Visual Studio 2005 and doesn't support Visual Studio 2008.

BizTalk MsBuild Generator

This tool can be used to generate the MsBuild scripts required to implement a build process for a development environment that will build and deploy your code then allow you to test it. This script can easily be extended and contains an overrides file to contain your extensions. The scripts can also easily be used within a continuous integration environment using tools such as CruiseControl or TFS

TFS Check-in Validation Tool

BuddyBuild.zip (110,8 MB)
The TFS Check-in Validation Tool extends TFS Team Build 2008 by enabling buddy build queuing (pre-checkin), validating checkins using shelvesets, and build agent pooling, all from the VS 2008 IDE.

BuildCop

BuildCop.zip (3,8 MB)
Analyzes MSBuild project files (interactively or during e.g. a daily build) according to a customizable set of rules and generates reports - e.g. is strong naming enabled, are certain project properties set correctly, is XML documentation being generated, are assembly references correct, are naming conventions respected, ...

MsBuild Microsoft Access Tasks

MsBuild task implementation for msaccess files. Mdb,adp or accdb creation from sourcecontrol. - Make mde - Compact database

CCNetConfig

ccnetconfig.zip (166,0 MB)
CCNetConfig is a GUI tool to create and maintain the ccnet configuration file for CruiseControl.NET.

CCStatistics for CruiseControl.NET 1.4

CCStatistics allows you to rebuild your historical statistics information from all your legacy build results. This is critical if you add a new statistic to measure, as by 'out of the box' it will not import any existing information. This solves that issue when the data (via XPat

Christoc's DotNetNuke Module and Theme Development Template

Quick and easy to use Module and Theme (skin) Development templates for DotNetNuke 7.0.2+ and Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015.

System.AddIn Tools and Samples

clraddins.zip (11,1 MB)
Introduction Welcome to the CodePlex site for the Managed Extensibility and Add-In Team. This site will be the home to both samples and tools designed to help you make the best use of the new System.AddIn features in the .Net FX v3.5. We'll continue to use our blog http://blogs.msdn.com/clraddins/ for information and discussion about our work, but from now on we'll be hosting our samples here for easier access. The initial focus will be on two things: Bringing over samples from the team blog to this site The release of the Pipeline Builder tool For more information on our work please see our additional resources page.

Code Endeavors DotNetNuke Templates for C# and VB.NET

The Code Endeavors DotNetNuke Module Templates utilize the Visual Studio Content Installer to enable the developer to create DotNetNuke modules quickly. After they are installed, simply open the File menu, expand New Project, and choose one of the templates to model your module

Coding Cockerel code samples

This project exists simply to provide access to sample code related to blog posts from http://www.codingcockerel.co.uk/

CodePlex Release Publisher for CruiseControl.NET

cprp.zip (68 kB)
A publisher for CruiseControl.NET that wraps the CodePlex API to submit a release. In some cases, a publisher may be a better candidate then using MSBuild task because the CodePlex API requires a user name and password to submit the release. The ccnet.config file usually wont be controlled by CodePlex Source Control but the MSBuild script usually is.

Dependency Visualizer

Have you ever wondered how your projects depend on each other, or just downloaded sources from CodePlex and want to know how it fits together? With the help of Dependency Visualizer you do not have to wonder anymore! Dependency Visualizer graphically shows the inter-project dependencies between Visual Studio projects as a SVG and/or PNG diagram. Both project and file references are supported and project references are followed recursively. Support for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. MSBuild compatible project types are supported, but by popular request, it also supports solution files and C++ projects.

DeploymentWang

DeploymentWang provides a library of MSBuild tasks and operations to help reduce errors in your application deployment.

DeployWebLib

Build and merge ASP.NET user controls into DLL library which can be later used to dynamically load these user controls from code into other web application projects. You'll no longer need to distribute aspx/ascx files within this library, it is already merged to single DLL.

MSBuild Directory Manifest Generator

The Directory Manifest Generator creates an XML directory manifest for a specified target directory. It is designed to be run through a command-line or as an MSBuild task. It is developed in C#, using Visual Studio 2008 but targeting .Net 2.0.

Distribution

AssemblyVersioner provides an easy way to change "AssemblyInfo.cs" file: AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion attributes.

DotNetNuke® HTML Module Replacement

dnnhtml.zip (3,0 MB)
The latest source for the DNN® Text/HTML module, building off of the Code Endeavors Template which utilizes the MSBuild Community Tasks to auto-package and version each release. We are currently not adding any additional features, only publishing the missing source code.

Enterprise DNN C# MVP Module Template for Visual Studio

A C# Visual Studio template for DNN Enterprise Module Development using the new DAL2 Data Access Layer and implementing the MVP and Repository design patterns

MS Build for DNN module development

This MS Build tasks will completely generate PA Pack and DNN manifest file (.dnn files for DNN 5.x and up), it will process and generate version #'s, etc.