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In the last post I showed how easy it is to install Subversion and how it can be integrated into Visual Studio 2008 via AnkhSVN. This time we will set up a Continuous Integration server and configure a build runner.

As a Continuous Integration Server I recommend JetBrains TeamCity. You can download the free professional edition at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/.

Installing TeamCity

During the installation process TeamCity wants to get a port number. Be sure that there will be no conflict with other web applications on your server. I chose port 8085 – and my first build agent got this default settings:

In the next step you have to sign the License Agreement and to create an administrator account:

Creating a Project

Now you can create your project and set up the build configuration:

Setting up a build runner

For setting up specific build runners see the TeamCity documentation. For now I will use the “sln2008”-Build runner (the Runner for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 solution files).

Now add a build trigger. Whenever someone performs a Commit on the Subversion repository the server has to start a build.

Testing the build runner

After this step we have two options to start a build. The first one is by clicking the “Run”-button on the project website and the second is doing a checkin:

After performing the Commit the pending build appears on the project website:

After 60 seconds (see my configuration above) the build is starting. After the build is complete one can see the results in different ways. The simplest is via the project website:

Of cause TeamCity gives you a lot of different notification and monitoring possibilities including mail, RSS feeds or System Tray Notifications.

Next time I will show how we can integrate UnitTesting in our automated build scenario.