Monthly Archives: December 2015

DLL assembly versioning in TeamCity builds

TeamCity

A nice thing to do when deploying code from a CI server is to embed the build version number into the DLLs, so if someone isn’t sure what code ended up in that environment, they can check the version rather than decompiling the DLL.

This is very easy in TeamCity, Add the “AssemblyInfo patcher” build feature, with the default configuration:

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Any confusion as to what build is deployed could then check the DLL version against TeamCity, look up that build and check what changes / revision were included.

Some of our clients require us to supply packages which they deploy themselves. We supply web deploy packages. For these we provided numbered releases, and this is particularly useful in this scenario.

For these we also manually set the Build number to include the release number as well as the default build.counter e.g.

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Then the DLL version will be like 5.0.42 which would mean release 5.0 built from TeamCity build# 42.

Alternatively you could embed the vcs revision number.

Capture querystring on New Relic .NET Agent

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New Relic by default only captures request URL excluding querystring. This shows on transaction traces and errors etc.

Just spent ages reading the docs to figure out how to get it to include querystring, which is confusingly referred to as Request Parameters (which I thought referred to things such as server variables)

Anyway it is as simple as adding this into the newrelic.config under <configuration> :

<attributes enabled="true">
<include>request.parameters.*</include>
</attributes>

Then all querystring parameters are recorded. I think instead of * you can specify particular named parameters if you need to. Not sure if this captures POST parameters too so be careful not to record sensitive data (maybe don’t do this on an ecommerce site for example).