Forum: [VBP] Suggestions
08-19-2021, 12:56 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 19,366
Support for JSON, YAML
It doesn't appear that VBP natively supports working with JSON or YAML file types. It could be helpful to have actions for reading and writing with those file formats like we currently have for INI...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
05-11-2020, 03:49 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 28,393
UI display problems on Windows 2019
We're trying to narrow down things, but we're observing some odd behaviors of UI elements disappearing on VBP 10.2 on a Windows 2019 server. We don't observe the issue on Windows 2016 servers. It's...
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
05-04-2020, 12:57 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 28,408
PowerShell 6 and 7 support
I've only used PowerShell 5.1 and below with Visual Build. The recent release of PowerShell 7 is supposed to have more backward compatibility with PowerShell 5.1 and below, so I'm considering trying...
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
12-23-2019, 08:16 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 30,261
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
12-20-2019, 07:42 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 30,261
How do I see PowerShell script progress?
I'm using a PowerShell action. It works just fine with Visual Build and I can send data to it and get it back into VBP. My problem with this particular script is that it may run for a very long time...
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Forum: [VBP] User Tips, Tricks and Samples
12-19-2019, 11:41 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 51,476
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Forum: [VBP] User Tips, Tricks and Samples
12-19-2019, 07:32 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 51,476
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Forum: [VBP] User Tips, Tricks and Samples
12-19-2019, 10:12 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 51,476
Manual intervention step
I have some situations that require manual intervention before proceeding to the next step. I used to shell out to Notepad to open a text file so a human could review the results. That did a great...
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
01-11-2019, 03:36 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 32,776
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
01-08-2019, 02:24 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 32,776
December 10 update breaks Oracle action
I was just at a good point yesterday to update Visual Build 9.7 to the December 10, 2018 revision. Today I tried running a script that does some Run Oracle Script actions. Visual Build just hung. I...
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Forum: [VBP] Suggestions
04-16-2018, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 28,199
Improved .bld file format
There have been a few times when I wished that the .bld file format was easier to navigate programmatically.
For example, all the steps are flat, but contain an indent node. It would be nice if a...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
04-16-2018, 01:21 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 38,951
Yay! This worked. I'm glad I found it. I was...
Yay! This worked. I'm glad I found it. I was originally trying to solve my problem using Write Files. Unfortunately, Write Files only lets you append or overwrite. A possible enhancement for Write...
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Forum: [VBP] Suggestions
09-12-2017, 02:55 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 28,871
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
09-12-2016, 12:47 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 26,021
I was also looking for the elapsed time. I see...
I was also looking for the elapsed time. I see how to do it from the post. As this post was a few years ago, is that still the best way to get the elapsed time, or are there any built-in macros or...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
05-20-2016, 01:25 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 15,850
Not remembering column selections
I'm having an issue on one server where Visual Build is not remembering the columns I want displayed. I select them, and select the widths, etc. When I close Visual Build and reopen it, it forgets....
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
03-31-2016, 06:53 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 15,818
Echoing command line in %LASTSTEP_OUTPUT%
I don't know if this is a bug or if it's something intentional:
I was trying to capture the output of my Oracle script in %LASTSTEP_OUTPUT%, but I kept getting the command line inserted before the...
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Forum: [VBP] Suggestions
03-21-2016, 01:35 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 27,426
Confluence action
I have pages in Confluence which I update with build and deployment information. I'm looking to automate such updates.
I'd love a Confluence macro to which Visual Build can write values. The way...
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
03-21-2016, 01:26 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 24,732
JIRA Action
It would be nice to have an action that wraps the JIRA APIs so that I can update information in JIRA. Of course, I might need to get information back from JIRA in order to iterate through things.
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Forum: [VBP] Suggestions
01-12-2016, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 30,471
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
10-12-2015, 01:07 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 15,703
Reset LASTSTEP_OUTPUT before running action
I have some situations when I'm running an Oracle script and it doesn't work properly. It's not a situation where VBP detects it as an error, so the error handling script isn't run. However, when I...
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
07-10-2015, 03:12 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 19,091
v9 - Support for .Net 4.5.2
Can you clarify what "support for .Net 4.5.2" means in VBP 9?
We're already doing builds against .Net 4.5.2 using VBP 8.7 with both MS Build and VS 2013 actions. Now that I see VBP 9 officially...
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
07-08-2015, 03:04 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 18,414
PerlScript class not registered
I'm trying to use the Run Script action to run a Perl script. When it runs, it says:
Failed to instantiate script engine 'PerlScript': Class not registered
I'm on Windows Server 2008 R2 with...
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
06-24-2015, 04:18 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 31,348
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
06-23-2015, 01:04 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 31,348
Strange PowerShell behavior with arguments
When I pass command-line arguments to PowerShell, I can see them if I do this:
foreach ($i in $args)
{Write-Host $i}
And $args.count returns the correct number.
However, whenever I try...
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Forum: [VBP] Suggestions
06-05-2015, 07:37 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 29,026
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