TeamCity

The recently released TeamCity 2021.2 introduces a new build runner — C# Script. We’ve created it for users who want to automate their routine CI/CD operations using the familiar syntax of C# and all its scripting conveniences. TL;DR: The runner’s main advantages are:- It’s tightly integrated wit…

Deploying ASP.NET applications can be done in a multitude of ways. Some build the application on a workstation and then xcopy it over to the target server. Some use a build server, download the artifacts, change the configuration files and xcopy those over to the server. The issue with that is somet…

When working with NuGet we can make use of package restore. The concept is simple: instead of committing packages that we depend on to source control, we only commit the list of dependencies we need and download the assemblies during build. In TeamCity, package restore is supported in various way…

TeamCity comes with a series of Runners out of the box which offer support for different functionalities such as MSBuild, Ant, Code Inspections, Gradle support, etc. In addition to these, there are a variety of runners that are supported via plugins, from FTP uploads to Grails and other things. W…

A while ago we blogged about using TeamCity to do Continuous Integration for PHP. TeamCity developers never seem to sleep: with TeamCity 8 a new feature called meta-runners was introduced. Meta runners allow us to reuse build steps by representing them as a native TeamCity runner. In other words, th…

Over the last few weeks we have made a great deal of improvements in .NET inspections support. As a result .NET Inspections (powered by JetBrains ReSharper) and FxCop inspections runners produce much more clear results. In case you missed, some time ago we announced new .NET inspections runner base…

"I see dead code" - .NET developers all over the world know this slogan due to incredible code analysis feature provided by JetBrains ReSharper. One of the most wanted TeamCity features was to have .NET inspections results right on build server. Starting with the latest EAP you have it! The only th…

After our posts about TeamCity's new multiple build steps (previously called "multiple build runners") feature and further changes in .NET build runners, I believe that plugin developers might have some questions to be clarified. So today, I'm going to shed some light on the major agent-side API c…

It's about time to try a new TeamCity 6.0 EAP build, which introduces the long-awaited feature - Multiple Build Runners. Many of you voted for this one, and now we would like to hear your feedback on it. Here's how it works - you can add as many build runners to a single build configuration as you …