ClickOnce and VSTO Application Signing with Signotaur
Sign ClickOnce and VSTO applications easily with Signotaur. Automate manifest signing, ensure trusted publishers, and simplify your CI/CD builds.
Useful MSBuild Properties for Production Builds
When deploying .NET applications to production, the difference between a development build and a properly configured production build can be significant. MSBuild provides numerous properties that allow you to optimize your builds for performance, security, and reliability. This article explores essential MSBuild properties for production builds, with particular focus on configuration for CI servers like Continua CI.
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Code Signing with USB Tokens
Big changes are coming for OV (Organisation Validation) code signing certificates - from (1 June 2023, extended from 15 November 2022), new and reissued publicly trusted organization validation (OV) and individual validation (IV) code signing certificates will have to be issued or stored on preconfigured secure hardware by the issuing certificate authority (CA) and the device must meet FIPS 140 Level 2, Common Criteria EAL 4+ or equivalent security standards.
Continua CI System Server Properties
A brief look at system-defined Continua CI server properties - old and new.
Announcing the Release of Continua CI Version 1.9.2
Version 1.9.2 of Continua CI has been released. This post is a reminder of the new functionally in this version for exporting project configurations to a file (which can then be imported back into Continua CI), the ability to requeue failed stages, and improvements to build cleanup settings to allow each type of build by-product to have a different shelf life.
Introducing Continua CI Version 1.9.2 Beta
This new beta release includes functionally for exporting project configurations to a file (which can then be imported back into Continua CI), the ability to requeue failed stages, and improvements to build cleanup settings to allow each type of build by-product to have a different shelf life.
Daily Builds with Continua CI
This post explores the options currently available in Continua CI for running daily builds.
Introducing Continua CI Version 1.9.1 Beta
This new beta release includes substantial improvements to the expressions engine including new several expressions objects and functions. We have also made some updates to the stage editor, implemented automatic report generation for some reporting actions, and added several new deployment actions providing support for Docker, Azure, SQL packages, File Transfer and SSH.
Introducing Continua CI Version 1.9
Today we released version 1.9 of Continua CI. Here's a summary of the main new features.