Recently I upgraded a project of mine (the Dimecasts code base) to use VisualStudio 2010. In the process everything worked just fine from the IDE, but when I tried to compile it from the command line I would get the following errors: Error MSB4064: The "Retries" parameter is not supported by...
This past week I was taking a look at one of our build scripts as it appeared to be taking a bit longer than everyone wanted. Because I am very close to the file (authored about 50% of it) I decided that in place of just diving in and looking at the raw source I would instead run the script with the...
Today while trying to setup a CC.Net server at my new client I ran into a little issue. I had been using the .86 Beta1 build of Nant (as it is the only build that works with .Net 3.5) and all was fine on my Windows XP box. However, when I moved everything up to the actual server I encountered...
The problem is well-known - all four parts of the version number are limited to 16-bit numbers. So, when you used versioning like this: x.y.z.ymmdd, thus when the 2007.01.01 arrived, you were in trouble and got the infamous csc error: [csc] error CS0647: Error emitting 'System.Reflection.AssemblyVersionAttribute...