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Visual Build

Completely Automate Build and Deployment Tasks

Visual Build

*** Due to the overwhelming response Kinook Software, Inc. has agreed to extend this deal for another day - Enjoy! ***

"My manager looks at me like I'm God when I say that I can build and deploy his gargantuan business application in less than a day..."

Tell me if this sounds familiar: your developers are all very good at what they do, but when it comes to building and deploying... not so much. And the bottom line is that a haphazard, ad hoc approach to building and deploying your application is a recipe for trouble.

What you really need is a method that is automated, repeatable, and consistent. Visual Build delivers on all of these counts.

Visual Build is an application that lets you automate the tedious tasks associated with building and deploying applications. Whether you use Microsoft Visual Studio, Embarcadero Delphi, Developer Studio, RAD Studio, Delphi Prism, or C++Builder, you'll find that many of the processes that used to require hours of manual work can be easily set up to run automatically with Visual Build.

For example, Visual Build can perform version control, check-in/out source code, and register type libraries and .NET components. It can compile help projects, deploy applications, and perform builds on an automated, scheduled, remote, or continuous basis. And when it comes to distributing your applications, Visual Build is perfectly capable of creating installers for your software, burning physical media, creating ZIP archive files, and writing files directly to a website, network path, or FTP server. Everything that you're used to doing on a manual basis can be automated, and performed more consistently, using Visual Build.

Visual Build keeps a log of all build activities, so if something goes awry, you'll instantly know where to look to fix the error. The success or failure status of each build can be automatically sent to email addresses or posted to newsgroups, so there won't be any unpleasant surprises waiting for you when you get into the office.

Save your development hours for developing! Use Visual Build to clear your schedule of all of your manual build and deployment tasks today!

Written by Derek Lee

Visual Build lets you:

  • Automate many of the tedious tasks associated with building and deploying applications and software packages.
  • Condense your build and deploy process to a method that is repeatable and consistent.
  • Automate build and deploy tasks for Microsoft Visual Studio, Embarcadero Delphi, Developer Studio, RAD Studio, Delphi Prism, and C++Builder.
  • Check in/out source code and perform source code version control.
  • Register type libraries and components.
  • Deploy applications quickly and easily.
  • Perform software builds on a remote, automated, scheduled, or continuous basis.
  • Ease distribution processes by creating installers, burning media, creating ZIP archives, and writing files to websites, network paths, and FTP servers
  • Keep informed of the status of builds by automated emails and newsgroup postings.
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Who Needs Visual Build?
You do if you've ever:

  • Had concerns that your build/deploy process was not consistent from one department to the next.
  • Wanted to improve product quality. By implementing a regular build process, your team's software quality will improve and bugs will be found and repaired more quickly.
  • Wanted a build/deploy methodology that was consistent and repeatable.
  • Wanted to create a permanent build record. XML project files and log files, which become part of your project's source code (and can be maintained in source control), provide a persistent, documented record of how builds are performed.
  • Wanted to eliminate key-person dependencies. "Tribal knowledge" about the build procedure (often kept only in people's heads) will be replaced by a documented build framework.

Real Users Say:

  • “VisBuildPro is totally cool. I've been able to interactively build up a reliable daily build of a very complex system (multi-platform, Java, COM, client/server, USB drivers). If I was stuck in batch mode [like every other freaking project I've worked on], instead of VisBuildPro, I'd be nowhere near as far along as I am now.”- Doug Schmidt, Creo Inc.
  • “Visual Build Professional is AWESOME! Tremendous upgrade to an already good product. VBP will enable us to finally COMPLETELY automate our build process, saving us money and helping us maintain our ISO9000 certification!!”- Dennis Castaldi, Manhattan Associates
  • “Visual Build is absolutely our best utility software purchase ever!”- Phil C., MEDENT
  • “All I can say is Wow! What a tool! I had allocated 3 days to building batch files to accomplish the same thing, but w/o near the elegance. We did it in 1/2 day [with VBP].”- Ted Macy, MapShots Inc.
  • “This thing is awesome! I was going the open source Nant way but after I built my scripts and got the latest version, everything had broke. The samples you sent made things a breeze to setup. Thank you very very very very very very very much!!”- Scott Densmore, Retail Vision Systems
  • “Visual Build is a truly brilliant app...makes my life so much easier. My current project has 310 project files (.dsp and .vbp) amounting to over eight thousand source files in 1200-odd directories and requires 17 GBytes of disk space to compile! Not something that I would like to manage manually.”- Danny P.
  • “Just thought I'd say thanks for a really terrific product. Visual Build has really improved my life, a lot more time to play golf and such. My manager looks at me like I'm God when I say that I can build and deploy his gargantuan business application in less than a day (it really only takes 15 minutes, hence the new-found golf time).”- Bill W., AMN Healthcare

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9 Comments for Visual Build Reveal 1 Old Comment

  • Jan 28 2010 12:18am
    Bradley MacDonald (Rising Star)
    Looks like a very nice product. Does it allow me to do multiple step builds?
    1. Compile a Delphi App
    2. Build a Installation using INNO Setup
    3. Send up to my Website via FTP.

    It would also be very nice if I could update the projects - like changing the Delphi Appication version information - and change some of the text in the INNO Build.

    Bradley MacDonald
  • Jan 28 2010 8:18am
    Kyle Alons (Kinook Software, Inc. Vendor)
    Yes, that's exactly what it's for. Updating of versions and properties when building Delphi projects, settings and definitions in Inno Setup files, generic updates to text files, and FTP/SFTP uploading are all built-in.

    http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Manual/delphiaction.htm
    http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Manual/innosetup.htm
    http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Manual/filereplaceaction.htm
    http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Manual/ftp.htm
  • Feb 3 2010 2:06am
    Stefan Hauber (Visitor)
    Assuming I have a certain compiler, your tool currently does support, e.g. Delphi 2010. In case some times later, when VisualBuild came to version 8, I decide to buy Delphi 2012: Do I have to upgrade VisualBuild to be able to build my programs with Delphi 2012 or can I still use VisualBuild 7.x?

    Or are the supported tools kind of script-programs users can modify and include in VisualBuild to allow them to run it with other or updated tools too?

    Can I include my own 'compiler', meaning a self-written tool, which creates from a given file (source) another file (destination)?
  • Feb 3 2010 9:12am
    Kyle Alons (Kinook Software, Inc. Vendor)
    If we need to update Visual Build to support a newer version of Delphi, and the update is part of a major release (i.e., v8), there would be an upgrade fee for that version.
    http://www.kinook.com/support.html

    The built-in actions can't be modified by the end user, but you can add your own actions for calling other compilers and tools.
    http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Manual/userdefaction.htm
  • Feb 3 2010 9:15am
    Kyle Alons (Kinook Software, Inc. Vendor)
    Mark -- the Buy button is now enabled (I think there was a temporary glitch on the BDJ site).
  • Feb 3 2010 1:19pm
    David Pickett (Bright Spark)
    This is a great deal! I've used Visual Build in the past and it's the bee's knees for automated complex builds.

    (No relation, business or otherwise, with Kinook or employees thereof...just a happy former user :).)
  • Feb 4 2010 12:00am
    Nico Westerdale (Bits du Jour Admin)
    Due to the overwhelming response Kinook Software, Inc. has agreed to extend this deal for another day - Enjoy!
  • Feb 4 2010 12:24am
    Mica D (Visitor)
    I am having more than one version of C++Builder on my system. How can I choose the C++Builder-version (e.g. the location of the compiler-program) when adding a 'Make C++ Builder' node to my project?

    I tried, but VisualBuild always seems to use the newest version.
  • Feb 4 2010 10:58am
    Kyle Alons (Kinook Software, Inc. Vendor)
    Yes -- see the Override default location field on the Options tab.
    http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Manual/delphioptionstab.htm

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