After moving the CruiseControl.NET server to a virtual instance of Windows Server 2003, we've been having problems with NDoc hanging.  I've noticed previously that NDoc was apparently leaking memory thus forcing me to reboot the server every night.  I think it may be opportune time to swap out the alpha version of NDoc we've been using up to this point for Sandcastle, Microsoft's (beta) code documentation generator.

The idea was to make the autobuild system hardware independant, which I think we achieved, however I wonder if it was worth the extra effort. I think it will be beneficial in the long run since the build is dependant upon the following apps/tools which are not is source control: .NET 2.0, a local SQL Server 2005 instance, CruiseControl.NET, and Perforce.

So far I'm pretty impressed with Virtual Server, especially the ability to mount ISO images directly to the guest CD drive. I can't believe I haven't used VS before today.

The only strange issue we ran into was a "VMRC Negotiate Authentication" problem. Everytime we tried to reconnect to a instance authentication would fail. Setting the authentication mode from Automatic to NTLM fixed this issue for us.

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It only took me several years to get around to it, but I finally did it; I installed a blogging package, dasBlog!

I'm not sure why it took me this long, but I hope to use this space as a centralized storage of random thoughts and notes for future reference for myself - and anyone else if they're interested.

After logging in, be sure to visit all the options under Configuration in the Admin Menu Bar above. There are 26 themes to choose from, and you can also create your own.

 

I just relearned a valuable lesson today, make sure when you are using multiple libraries in your C++ project, that they all use the same runtime library.  For instance, if you have one library set to use the Multi-threaded (/MT) runtime library, then make sure the consuming project also is set to use the Multi-threaded (/MT) runtime library.