Folder wildcards like \**\ in CruiseControl.Net

Last week we were working on our Build Server using CruiseControl.Net to allow multiple Test / Code Coverage tasks for two or more solutions.

Once we've configured the .proj file to run a set of two RunTests / RunCodeCoverage tasks we needed to merge the results file to the MSBuild log after running them.

So, our first approach was modifying the ccnet.config file to merge the files generated by these tasks using the same pattern of MSBuild, I mean, using "\**\", something like this:

<merge>
  <files>
    <file>D:\srv\ccnet\logs\project\**\*.trx</file>
    <file>D:\srv\ccnet\logs\project\**\*.cvg</file>
  </files>
</merge>

At this point, we have figured out that Cruise Control .Net does not have this functionality, only it allows to run something like D:\srv\ccnet\logs\project\theProject\*.trx, and since the CruiseControl.Net source code is available I started to writing some lines to modify the ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core assembly to allow that.

In this post you will find the source code of the spike I wrote with a series of tests to implement that feature and the WildCardPath.cs source code from the core CruiseControl.Net project updated.

• Spike solution with tests [Download]
• WildCardPath class file of CruiseControl.Net Core assembly [Download]

Once you have updated the Core project with the new implementation of the WildCardPath class, you need to do the following tasks to keep it running.

1. Compile the Core project
2. Stop the CruiseControl.Net service
3. Replace the ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core assembly with the new one.

And that's it, use wildcards as in MSBuild :)