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  Editing Predicates Fails
  buildmaster predicates • 4 Mar 2014, 14:18 • Alex Pointer   5 Mar 2014, 13:47

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  We are planning to fix this in BuildMaster 4.2, but in the meantime you can edit it directly in SQL on the Plans or PlanActionGroups table (depending on if you're using shared/overridden plans). The format is a long, persisted XML string that hopefully shouldn't be too difficult to figure out.
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  SQLServerExpress leaks memory
  buildmaster databases sql-server • 3 Mar 2014, 15:09 • Alex Pointer   4 Mar 2014, 12:16

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  This is addressed in Microsoft KB321363: When you start Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server memory usage may continue to steadily increase and not decrease, even when activity on the server is low. Additionally, the Task Manager and the Performance Monitor may show that the physical memory that is available on the computer steadily decreases until the available memory is between 4 MB and 10 MB. This behavior alone does not indicate a memory leak. This behavior is typical and is an intended behavior of the SQL Server buffer pool. By default, SQL Server dynamically grows and shrinks the size of its buffer pool (cache), depending on the physical memory load that the operating system reports. As long as sufficient memory (between 4 MB and 10 MB) is available to prevent paging, the SQL Server buffer pool will continue to grow. As other processes on the same computer as SQL Server allocate memory, the SQL Server buffer manager will release memory as needed. SQL Server can free and obtain several megabytes of memory each second. This allows for SQL Server to quickly adjust to memory allocation changes. That article will give some further links on how to adjust memory, but in general it's best to leave it alone. I believe SQL Express 2005 is capped at ~1GB usage anyway.
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  Why does ProGet reject my symbols package?
  proget nuget symbols • 4 Feb 2014, 16:46 • Alex Pointer   2 Mar 2014, 16:11

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  Hi To recap for future reference. To push a package containing symbols and sourcecode the following has been tested and worked fine with nuget 2.8: Create nuget package using: nuget pack foo.csproj -Symbols Alternatively use: nuget pack foo.spec -Symbols The above command will create two nupkg. The one decorated with the word symbols does contain all libs as well as the sourcecode and PDB files. You cna check yourselfes by opening hte nupkg in something like winzip or 7zip, since the package is basically a zip file. Push the symbols package to proget. check the package on the feed. If the symbols server is activated the package info will show that symbols and source are available. Follow the Inedo guide on how to add The Proget symbol server support into Visual Studio. Food for thought. My, very quick test, shows me that a package build in the .NET 4.0 framework, of course works fine in a .NET 4.5 project, but i could not use the symbols to debug. I tried to remove the package, downgrade my test project to .NET 4.0 and reinstall the package. Now i could debug nicely into the source. Bottomline. The symbols package and the project that uses it must be on the same .NET version for the symbols to work. Symbols compatibility does, apparently, not span framework versions, even thou the frameworks themselves are backwards compatible. Thomas
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  TFS 2013 New Application Wizard from Solution File
  buildmaster • 27 Feb 2014, 00:14 • Alex Pointer   27 Feb 2014, 11:34

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  Sure, feel free to post that to GitHub. What types of projects are these? Typically you don't need to worry about dependencies if you get the source for the whole solution and just build the .csproj as MSBuild will handle that for you in the same way as if you built it in Visual Studio.
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  View Debug Logs security setting
  buildmaster security • 14 Feb 2014, 10:18 • Alex Pointer   25 Feb 2014, 16:05

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  Can you send a screenshot to support@inedo.com exhibiting this behavior? In a quick smoke test my debug logs disappear when I remove the task from all the roles.
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  Prompting for username and password
  buildmaster security sdk • 21 Feb 2014, 18:04 • Alex Pointer   25 Feb 2014, 14:10

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  Alana, thanks for the suggestion. I will look at adding this, but do you have any ideas how I can get the execution id for the current execution? There don't seem to be any variables for it. I thought of trying to get it from the BuildMaster API using an HTTP GET request, but I don't see a way to store that to a variable.
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  Environment Headings on Application Overview Page
  buildmaster • 25 Feb 2014, 06:15 • Alex Pointer   25 Feb 2014, 10:46

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  Yeah we can add those. I've filed this issue as BM-1396.
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  Alternate connection string in the installer
  buildmaster installer • 25 Feb 2014, 06:32 • Alex Pointer   25 Feb 2014, 10:44

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  Not exactly - it's simply used instead of reading the connection string from the appSettings file. To move the database, just back up and restore it to your new server and change the connection strings in the web application's Web_appSettings.config file and the service's App_appSettings.config file. Whatever service account is running the application pool or running the BuildMaster web server service needs to be granted the BuildMasterUser_Role for the new database as well.
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  Connectors issue
  proget • 24 Feb 2014, 09:53 • Alex Pointer   24 Feb 2014, 12:36

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  There is no way to tell from that error alone what the problem is. Some questions to help troubleshoot: is the other feed also a ProGet feed, or some other type of a feed? Can you actually browse to and get packages from that other feed? Can you connect to the NuGet.org feed from the feed that current has the broken connector?
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  Custom icon for BuildMaster extension
  buildmaster integrations • 24 Feb 2014, 10:44 • Alex Pointer   24 Feb 2014, 10:45

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  You can add an ExtensionIconAttribute assembly attribute to your extension for a custom logo that accepts a URL to the image in its constructor. Note that this attribute requires the BuildMaster SDK v4.1 or later. If you want to embed your image directly, you can convert the URL to a base64 string and embed it using a tool like this one: http://webcodertools.com/imagetobase64converter
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  Unique Source Control Actions
  buildmaster source-control • 20 Feb 2014, 19:59 • Alex Pointer   24 Feb 2014, 01:00

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  Hi Max, That sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately, there is no SC Provider that is associated with a particular build; that is, there'd be no way (aside from looking at logs) to know which ProviderIds were used in deployment plans executed over a build's lifecycle. You could capture this as a variable, however. If you haven't already, make sure to see how the SourceControlProviderActionBase actions work; you can find their code thru a decompiler (BuildMasterExtensions assembly), or just ask for it and we'll email you. Hope that helps, Alex
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  NuGet Packages Have Content and Tools Folders Stripped
  proget • 11 Feb 2014, 13:31 • Alex Pointer   21 Feb 2014, 12:58

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  After further investigation and help from support I found the issue. I am using the NuGet package and publish Visual Studio extension to create my NuGet packages. This is really just some MSBuild targets and supporting files that get included in your project/solution. What it does is use NuGet.exe to push the NuGet package and the symbols package. After further investigation (and help from ProGet support) I found that my packages were getting overwritten by the symbol packages. The reason for this is that NuGet.exe strips the symbols from the name of the NuGet package when it pushes. ProGet therefore has no way of knowing this is symbols package and since I have overwrite of packages enabled for the user that pushes the symbols package overwrote the primary package. The symbol package for obvious reasons only has the dll, pdb, and source files hence it looked like the content files were stripped. Since I didn't want to revamp my entire build process (it was already setup for about 30 projects across a number of solutions) I came up with an alternative approach. Since ProGet retains the symbols and source in the NuGet packages (it only strips them when they are downloaded) I created a separate feed for symbols and source (I named it SymbolsSource). This ends up working out beautifully. I push NuGet packages to Default and symbols to SymbolsSource and setup Visual Studio accordingly. I would like to give kudos to support for helping me out on this!
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  Issue connecting to BitBucket [Mercurial]
  buildmaster mercurial bitbucket • 20 Feb 2014, 23:16 • Alex Pointer   21 Feb 2014, 10:47

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  Sorry - I did mean .org in my previous response :) Still however, I am not able to reproduce this behavior that sets the Remote Repository to something other than what was typed in unless I edit an existing repository and do not save the edited values. If you could detail the exact steps you did (e.g. 1. Click Create New Provider button, 2. Input values abc and xyz, 3. click Test Connection, etc.) that would help tremendously.
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  SSL Proget
  proget security • 21 Feb 2014, 05:49 • Alex Pointer   21 Feb 2014, 10:16

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  In this case, you should install ProGet to IIS (it's an option in the installer), and configure SSL from there.
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  Unable to debug into NuGet package
  proget symbols • 5 Feb 2014, 12:41 • Alex Pointer   21 Feb 2014, 04:26

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  It's working for us too. Thanks!
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  Failure Installing BuildMaster (InvalidOperationException)
  buildmaster error installation databases • 20 Feb 2014, 11:01 • Alex Pointer   20 Feb 2014, 11:31

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  Hi Richard, Unfortunately it doesn't look like the exact error is being reported, but it definitely happening when the database schema is being initialized. Based on the error code, it looks like it's happening at the database driver level has something to do with updating the database schema. Perhaps there's an error connecting to the database, or something? Your best bet might be to tryagain, or use try the manual install process for the database.
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  Unable to connect to local Git repository
  buildmaster git • 18 Feb 2014, 14:41 • Alex Pointer   20 Feb 2014, 09:59

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  I appear to have found the answer. On a windows server you need to set up a network share with the git repository you want to share. Then, on the BuildMaster provider page, set the remote URL to file:////YourServer/path/to/git This will allow you to create a git provider that's on the same network as your BuildMaster server without SSH or git protocol.
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  Build Manager - Clients
  buildmaster • 19 Feb 2014, 14:55 • Alex Pointer   19 Feb 2014, 16:06

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  Hello, We have some case studies listed here http://inedo.com/buildmaster/case-studies, and we've also put together a list of featured users here: http://inedo.com/users. Steve
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  TeamCity build action wait on branch build to finish
  buildmaster teamcity • 18 Feb 2014, 16:29 • Alex Pointer   19 Feb 2014, 12:02

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  Thanks, Tod, that was the conclusion I came to as well. I created it, issue #3.
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  Sync between 2 ProGet servers
  proget • 19 Feb 2014, 09:26 • Alex Pointer   19 Feb 2014, 10:53

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  Setting up ProGet in what is essentially a load balanced environment is detailed here: http://inedo.com/support/kb/1073/load-balanced-and-high-availability-installation-of-proget. Note that this type of setup requires at least 2 ProGet Enterprise licenses (one for each server node). That being said, ProGet itself does not handle synchronization in the manner you described and symbol/source serving is not designed to work for connected feeds. If you wanted to sync ProGet servers manually, all you need to do is copy the packages on disk from one feed to the other.