{"id":62,"date":"2006-08-06T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2006-08-06T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T17:35:00","slug":"visual-build-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/visual-build-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Build Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3385\/179\/1600\/vbp.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3385\/179\/400\/vbp.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Screenshot from Visual Build Pro\"><\/a><br \/>At work I&#8217;ve been experimenting with Visual Build Pro. Our existing build system is well let&#8217;s say very backwardly compatible &#8230; as far back as Dos so a new version control system and a new Build Manager. <\/p>\n<p>The Build Manager I&#8217;ve been looking at is Visual Build Pro (VBP) by Kinook Software and it&#8217;s very nice and at \u00a3200, very reasonably priced. I got up to speed with it very quickly and it&#8217;s clear that the designers have probably used it on their own projects as everyting is well thought out. Integration with Subversion is very good. <\/p>\n<p>The big work project is a mixture of Delphi and Visual C++ with a fair bit of C. Automating the Delphi bit was ok but the Visual C++ stuff has been &#8216;fun&#8217;. Our project uses Make files, all 115 of them. VBP uses DSPs, the Visual Studio Project file. So I&#8217;ve had a one off manual conversion task. I did consider automating it and possibly still could but it&#8217;s the old classic connundrum- can you do it manually in the time it would take do to it in code?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work I&#8217;ve been experimenting with Visual Build Pro. Our existing build system is well let&#8217;s say very backwardly compatible &#8230; as far back as Dos so a new version control system and a new Build Manager. The Build Manager I&#8217;ve been looking at is Visual Build Pro (VBP) by Kinook Software and it&#8217;s very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}