Today's bugs

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My windmill list of the day:

  • MsBuild.Community.Tasks.FxCop will siently fail the build if called with no assemblies - resolution - worked around it by specifying condition applying more smarts in the build script.
  • Web Application Project / MsBuild - If you are using App_GlobalResources, and redirecting the build directory to another location (not where the code is), you will not be able to use the resources. That was fun to try to find out. It only breaks on the automated tests is not a good place to be. Resolution - Manually copy the App_GlobalResources to the new location during the build.
  • MsBuild has no way to concatenate a list of string together, which is required for use with many tools command lines. Resolution - write my on Concat task.
  • Selenium RC occuationally refuse to work from the build, running it manually and they trying the build seems to make it work. Not sure about the cause yet. Resolution - found a work around, added more smarts to the setup procedure to help detect borked initialization ASAP.