
Automate Software Builds with Visual Build
Visual Build is software for Windows that enables developers and build masters to easily create an automated, repeatable process for building and deploying software.
Visual Build provides built-in actions for common build commands and tools.


Why Visual Build?
Some of the alternatives are:
- Manual/Home-grown Builds: Creating a build process from scratch is not much fun, tends to be error-prone, and is usually a waste of time and money.
- Batch Files: A poor choice for automating builds because it's cumbersome to implement error handling, doesn't provide easy status and logging, and there is no simple way to continue from an error after correcting the problem.
- Make Files: While make files serve a useful purpose in many builds, they tend to be arcane and cryptic and are not well-suited for managing the entire build process.
- Script: Languages like Perl, PowerShell, and VBScript can be used to automate many tasks, but they require writing a lot of custom code, don't provide a framework for displaying build progress, logging tool output, or stopping and resuming from error conditions.
Use Visual Build to automate building and deployment of desktop software, games and web applications, automating development and administrative tasks within an enterprise, and much more.
By using Visual Build, you will...
- Save time and money - Automating your builds with Visual Build can save many hours of manual effort every month and easily pay for itself in the first month alone.
- Improve product quality - By implementing a regular build process, your team's software quality will improve and bugs will be found and repaired more quickly.
- Avoid boring jobs - Visual Build performs the menial, repetitive tasks so you can focus on the fun, challenging stuff. Its intuitive, full-featured GUI interface makes creating, debugging, and managing builds enjoyable.
- Eliminate key-person dependencies - "Tribal knowledge" about the build procedure (often kept only in people's heads) will be replaced by a documented build framework.
- Create a permanent build record - XML project files and log files, which become part of your project's source code (and can be maintained in source control), provide a persistent, documented record of how builds are performed.
Custom actions and/or samples are provided for many build actions and development tools:
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| Visual Studio Visual Basic 6.0 Visual C++ 6.0 Visual FoxPro Visual SourceSafe Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003 Visual Studio 2005/2008 VSTS Team Build VSTS Team Foundation VSTS Team Test eMbedded Visual C++ | Server ADO/OLEDB/ODBC COM Register/unregister COM+ Administration IIS Virtual Dir Install .NET Services MSMQ SQL Server Start/Stop Service Virtual PC Virtual Server | .NET Export/Import Type Library FxCop Generate Resources Files GAC Install MSBuild PEVerify PowerShell Strong Name Tool WSDL XSD |
| Installers Advanced Installer DeployMaster ExpertInstall Inno Setup InstallAnywhere InstallAware InstallShield MSIExec MSIStudio NSIS QuickInstall SetupBuilder Setup Factory Windows Installer Wise Installers WiX | Borland/CodeGear C#Builder C++Builder Delphi JBuilder RAD Studio StarTeam Turbo Products Help Authoring Doc-O-Matic Doc-To-Help Fast-Help Flare Help & Manual HelpScribble HelpStudio HyperText Studio RoboHelp | Other Version Control AccuRev Alienbrain ClearCase CVS Perforce PVCS Version Manager Subversion Surround SCM Vault Localization Multilizer Sisulizer |
| Files Burn CD/DVD Copy/Move/Delete/Sync Files Create/Delete Folder Read/Write Text/XML/INI Read/Write Registry Rename Files Replace in File Set File Attributes/Touch Sign Code (Digital Certificate) Transform XML (XSLT) ZIP/UNZIP files | Networking FTP/FTPS HTTP/HTTPS Map Drive Newsgroup Post PLink/SSH Send Mail Substitute Drive Telnet | Built-In Exit Build/Subroutine Kill Process Play Sound Prompt for Input Run Program or batch file Run Script Set Current Directory Set Process Priority Subroutine Call Wait for time/files/processes VisBuildPro Project |
| Other Third Party Ant IncrediBuild Intel C++ Compilers NAnt | NCover NDoc NUnit Oracle | Sandcastle Shutdown VMware Workstation VMware Server |
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