Congratulations to Thom Serafin for his 5 seconds of fame (1:07-1:12) on the Today Show this morning. Thom has been mentor of mine and I have had the privilege of working with him and coaching youth football with him.
Congrats Thom!
Clinton or Obama? No comment…
I love Ayende’s Rhino projects, especially his NHibernate Query Generator (NHQG). Since on most of my active development I am use NHibernate, Castle, and Rhino.Commons trunks, I keep nhqg in a tools directory and I was using a PreBuild command to generate the query builders. This had the negative impact of always rebuilding my domain project, even if a change was only made in another project. So, here is an msbuild snippet to generate my query builders only when my NHibernate mapping files change.
<ItemGroup> <NH-Mappings Include="DomainQuery***.hbm.xml" /> </ItemGroup> <Target Name="BeforeBuild" Inputs="@(NH-Mappings)" Outputs="@(NH-Mappings -> '%(RelativeDir)Generated%(Filename).cs')"> <Exec Command="$(SolutionDir)..toolsnhqgNHQG.exe /lang:cs /files:%22$(ProjectDir)DomainQuery*.hbm.xml%22 /out:%22$(ProjectDir)DomainQueryGenerated%22" /> </Target>
The Inputs and Ouputs of the Target is what allows msbuild to conditionally run the task. I use an msbuild transform to convert my mapping file name into the nhqg generated file name. Also, notice the %22 in command. This is the only way I could figure out how to pass quotes to a cmd inside of msbuild.
And the confirmation…
Target BeforeBuild: Skipping target "BeforeBuild" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files. Input files: DomainQueryPost.hbm.xml;DomainQueryContributor.hbm.xml;DomainQueryTag.hbm.xml;DomainQueryItem.hbm.xml;DomainQueryBlog.hbm.xml;DomainQueryTagStat.hbm.xml Output files: DomainQueryGeneratedItem.hbm.cs;DomainQueryGeneratedTagStat.hbm.cs;DomainQueryGeneratedContributor.hbm.cs;DomainQueryGeneratedBlog.hbm.cs;DomainQueryGeneratedPost.hbm.cs;DomainQueryGeneratedTag.hbm.cs
Happy Building 
[tag]nhibernate, rhino, nhqg, .net, msbuild[/tag]
