Part 1 gave an overview introduction to the app and covered job scheduling, searching for images on Bing, and downloading images. Part 2 covers setting the wallpaper, remote app settings, remote logging and more. Setting the Wallpaper The switch wallpaper job is scheduled to start running later than the download job to give time for…
At a previous job I made the mistake of leaving my computer unlocked on rare occasions and I ended up getting Biebered. We were constantly trolling each other and playing pranks which kept things fun. Changing someone’s wallpaper is pretty basic so I decided to take it up a notch for striking back. One day…
Be sure to check out Part 1 as this post builds upon it and the two go hand in hand. Series Overview Part 1 – Setting up logging with ASP.NET MVC, NLog and SQL Server Part 2 – Unhandled exception processing, building an error report, emailing errors, and custom error pages. Custom Error Handling Attribute…
It was the eleventh hour before a web app was to go live and there was nothing in place for error handling or logging. You’re shocked I’m sure (that’s my sarcastic voice). Normally with web apps in the past I’ve used ELMAH for unhandled error logging and NLog with text file targets for other logging.…
Series Index Build Automation Part 1: Overview and Pre-build Tasks Build Automation Part 2: Building and Packaging Build Automation Part 3: App Deployment Script Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments Unlike deploying the application itself in its entirety each time, database and report items have required incremental deployments due to their nature and…
Series Index Build Automation Part 1: Overview and Pre-build Tasks Build Automation Part 2: Building and Packaging Build Automation Part 3: App Deployment Script Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments Types of Deployment Scripts We currently have different deployment scripts that are run independently though there is a desire to chain them together…
Series Index Build Automation Part 1: Overview and Pre-build Tasks Build Automation Part 2: Building and Packaging Build Automation Part 3: App Deployment Script Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments In the last post in this series I discussed an overview of some build and deployment automation goals and covered some pre-build activities.…
Series Index Build Automation Part 1: Overview and Pre-build Tasks Build Automation Part 2: Building and Packaging Build Automation Part 3: App Deployment Script Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments A recent major application release at work required various changes to our build and deployment process. Our continuous integration process was created probably…