Incorporate Layer Validation in your Builds

Layer Validation with the VSTS 2010 CTP

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Layer Validation with the VSTS 2010 CTP

re: Incorporate Layer Validation in your Builds

Erik Cox — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:27:32 GMT

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How to make Layer Validation Diagrams work in the build

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In Visual studio 2010 Team Architect edition, you have a new type of diagram available, called the layer

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re: Incorporate Layer Validation in your Builds

Bob Hardister — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:39:08 GMT

Cameron, I tried getting layer diagram validation to work in the build for the beta 1 version. It's not working. Validation from the diagram does work, but not in the team build (or msbuild). What I tried is this (as a delta from the procedure above)

A. step 3 not needed (ArchitectureTools folder no longer there)

B. step 10 did not perform the valiation

re: Incorporate Layer Validation in your Builds

Suhail Dutta — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:00:09 GMT

Hey Bob,

As of Beta1, steps 1 through 6 are no longer necessary.

A couple of things to verify

- Make sure that the layer diagram is not in the modeling project. You must put it in a code project e.g. C# class library

- Make sure the build action is set to 'Validate'. As of Beta1 this is the default, but we have some issues around copying files from 1 project to another.

- Make sure you add project references to all the projects that you want validated.

Since this validation relies on msbuild, we need to tell msbuild what projects should be analyzed. This is achieved by creating project references

Often it is just enough to create a project reference to the client application which tends to be on the top of the project reference hierarchy.

Hope that helps. If not, let me know whats going wrong - are you seeing any errors?

Thanks

Suhail

re: Incorporate Layer Validation in your Builds - some progress

Bob Hardister — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:23:30 GMT

Suhail, I had the LD validating between a console project and a class library. Once I changed the LD dependency between two class libaries it worked in MSBuild from the command line, but not in the team build. I tried passing in the /t:ValidateArchitecture parameter to the team build, but this did not work as it tried to apply the target to the solution not the project containing the LD.

If I have it working in MSBuild from the cmdln for the project with the LD, it seems that MSBuild in the team build just needs to run the ValidateArchitecture target in the same way the cmdln is. Why doesn't do this? I have set the build action property for the .layer file to validate and also for the .suppresion file under the .layer file. Why aren't these property values being picked up by the team build?

Thanks for your help!!