SVN, Hudson and MSBuild - Revision control repository
SVN, Hudson and MSBuild - Building code on post commit

This is the second installment in the series I’m writing about SVN, Hudson and MSBuild.

This time I’ll show you how to set up a job in Hudson to build and package an ASP.NET MVC 3 Hello World sample app (download it here). This job will point to the SVN repository set up in the 1st part of this series. I’ve committed the app’s source code to the trunk folder and it’s now versioned.

Question: Why should I use a Continuous Integration ( CI ) process?

Because it allows you to fine tune and extend your build process. You’ll be able to plug hooks in various stages of your build process. CI gives you more control over the process allowing an infinite set of possibilities as for example an automated build => test => package => deploy scenario.

In this post I’m going to show this simple workflow: build => package

So, to start off, the first thing you should do is to download Hudson at http://hudson-ci.org/. The latest production version is 2.1.0 as of the time of this post. Download the .war file (53.3 MB) to your C:/ drive to keep things at hand. When the download finishes, read this thorough installation guide: Install Hudson as a Windows service. This is how I’ve set up Hudson. There should be no errors if you follow the instructions.

Note
Open a command prompt at C:\ and type:

java -jar hudson-2.1.0.war

This will start Hudson and you should be able to install it as a service following this link.

Now I suppose you have Hudson working on your machine.

Head over to you Hudson instance that is located at this URL by default:

http://localhost:8080/

Let’s configure a new Job in Hudson:

Figure 1 - Selecting New Job in Hudson dashboard

When you click the New Job link you go to a screen where you can give a name to the job and choose what kind of build you want the job to execute.

I named the job HelloWorldMvc3 and selected Build a free-style software project because it fits the purpose of this series.

* As you can see I already have a job called FitnessCenter configured.

Figure 2 - Naming the New Job and selecting the build type

After clicking OK we go to a new page that allows us to enter detailed configuration settings. The following image shows the options I used (click the image to enlarge it):

Figure 3 - Configuring the job and adding a Visual Studio project or solution build step

Note above in the Source Code Management section that I have chosen Subversion and passed the Repository URL:

file:///C:/svn/MyProject/trunk

The path above is related to the SVN repository I set up here.

The sample ASP.NET MVC 3 Hello World app is located in the /trunk folder.

Now we must add a build step to tell Hudson we want to build and package the app as part of the job execution. I have highlighted the option in blue in Figure 3 above. I selected Build a Visual Studio project or solution using MSBuild.

When you add that build step you must pass some info to Hudson as shown in the following picture:

Figure 4 - Selecting MSBuild version, filling MSBuild Build File and specifying the command line arguments

MsBuild Build File = the path to the .proj or .sln file that MSBuild will use to build. This path is related to the trunk folder structure you have. In this case I have this folder structure:

C:\MyProject\trunk\HelloWorldMvc3\HelloWorldMvc3.csproj

Command Line Arguments = a whitespace separated list of command line arguments you can specify. These can be the same as if you were to run msbuild from the command line.

I used these command line arguments above to package the app:

/T:Package /P:Configuration=Release;
SolutionDir="C:\hudson\jobs\MyProject\workspace\;
PackageLocation="C:\MyProject\Package.zip"

These command line arguments are power in our hands…

You can also select post-build actions as to send an e-mail notification. If configured, Hudson will send out an e-mail to the specified recipients when a certain important event occurs:
1 - Every failed build triggers a new e-mail.
2 - A successful build after a failed (or unstable) build triggers a new e-mail, indicating that a crisis is over.
3 - An unstable build after a successful build triggers a new e-mail, indicating that there's a regression.
4 - Unless configured, every unstable build triggers a new e-mail, indicating that regression is still there.

When you finish the configuration, make sure to click the Save button.

This is everything you need to configure a new job in Hudson.

With this we achieved our objective, that is, Hudson and SVN are now plugged.

To run the job and build the app I just have to click the Build Now link in Hudson panel (see left menu bar at the top in Figure 3) but the great thing about a Continuous Integration process it to have the build process happen automatically and this is definitely possible.

Summary
Hudson is a free CI server which makes it a viable option for the majority of developers and companies out there that don’t want to spend a lot of money with equivalent expensive software. Besides, as you saw in this post you can get it working with Subversion in a couple of minutes.

Hudson has a lot of additional goodies that you can and should explore. Go over each menu option to learn about its additional features.

Next in this series
In the next and final part of this series I’m going to show you what’s missing to get SVN to inform Hudson that it’s time to build the code just committed to the repository. In the meanwhile I’ll entertain you with the Console Output regarding the first execution of the job we created in this post. It took only 08.33 seconds to build and package the app in a beautiful .zip package that can be used to deploy the app in IIS (I'll do a blog post about this topic in the future):

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Path To MSBuild.exe: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe
Executing command: cmd.exe /C C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe /T:Package /P:Configuration=Debug;SolutionDir=C:\hudson\jobs\MyProject\workspace\;PackageLocation=C:\MyProject\Package.zip HelloWorldMvc3\HelloWorldMvc3.csproj && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%
[workspace] $ cmd.exe /C C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe /T:Package /P:Configuration=Debug;SolutionDir=C:\hudson\jobs\MyProject\workspace\;PackageLocation=C:\MyProject\Package.zip HelloWorldMvc3\HelloWorldMvc3.csproj && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%
Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 4.0.30319.1
[Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 4.0.30319.454]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2007. All rights reserved.

Build started 7/30/2011 12:16:23 AM.
Project "C:\hudson\jobs\HelloWorldMvc3\workspace\HelloWorldMvc3\HelloWorldMvc3.csproj" on node 1 (Package target(s)).
ValidateGlobalPackageSetting:
  $(PackageAsSingleFile) is True
  $(PackageFileName) is C:\MyProject\Package.zip. Validating...
PrepareForBuild:
  Creating directory "bin\".
  Creating directory "obj\Debug\".
GenerateTargetFrameworkMonikerAttribute:
Skipping target "GenerateTargetFrameworkMonikerAttribute" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files.
CoreCompile:
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_CopyFilesMarkedCopyLocal:
  Copying file from "C:\hudson\jobs\HelloWorldMvc3\workspace\packages\EntityFramework.4.1.10331.0\lib\EntityFramework.dll" to "bin\EntityFramework.dll".
  Copying file from "C:\hudson\jobs\HelloWorldMvc3\workspace\packages\EntityFramework.4.1.10331.0\lib\EntityFramework.xml" to "bin\EntityFramework.xml".
CopyFilesToOutputDirectory:
  Copying file from "obj\Debug\HelloWorldMvc3.dll" to "bin\HelloWorldMvc3.dll".
  HelloWorldMvc3 -> C:\hudson\jobs\HelloWorldMvc3\workspace\HelloWorldMvc3\bin\HelloWorldMvc3.dll
  Copying file from "obj\Debug\HelloWorldMvc3.pdb" to "bin\HelloWorldMvc3.pdb".
CollectFilesFromIntermediateAssembly:
  Gather all files from Project items @(IntermediateAssembly). Adding:
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  bin\HelloWorldMvc3.pdb to bin\HelloWorldMvc3.pdb
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  Gather all files from Project items @(Content). Adding:
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CollectFilesFromIntermediateSatelliteAssembliesWithTargetPath:
  Gather all files from Project output (IntermediateSatelliteAssembliesWithTargetPath). Adding:
CollectFilesFromReference:
  Gather all files from Project items @(ReferenceCopyLocalPaths,ReferenceComWrappersToCopyLocal,ResolvedIsolatedComModules,_DeploymentLooseManifestFile,NativeReferenceFile).
CollectFilesFromAllExtraReferenceFiles:
  Gather all files from Project items @(AllExtraReferenceFiles). Adding:
CollectFilesFrom_binDeployableAssemblies:
  Gather all files from Project items @(_binDeployableAssemblies). Adding:
PipelineCollectFilesPhase:
  Publish Pipeline Collect Files Phase
CollectWebConfigsToTransform:
  Found The following for Config tranformation:
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  Creating directory "C:\hudson\jobs\HelloWorldMvc3\workspace\HelloWorldMvc3\obj\Debug\TransformWebConfig\transformed\".
  Creating directory "C:\hudson\jobs\HelloWorldMvc3\workspace\HelloWorldMvc3\obj\Debug\TransformWebConfig\transformed\Views\".
PreTransformWebConfig:
  Copying Web.config to obj\Debug\TransformWebConfig\original\Web.config.
TransformWebConfigCore:
  Transforming Source File: C:\hudson\jobs\HelloWorldMvc3\workspace\HelloWorldMvc3\Web.config
    Applying Transform File: C:\hudson\jobs\HelloWorldMvc3\workspace\HelloWorldMvc3\Web.Debug.config
    Output File: obj\Debug\TransformWebConfig\transformed\Web.config
  Transformation succeeded
PostTransformWebConfig:
  Transformed Web.config using Web.Debug.config into obj\Debug\TransformWebConfig\transformed\Web.config.
PipelineTransformPhase:
  Publish Pipeline Transform Phase
PreAutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings:
  Creating directory "C:\hudson\jobs\HelloWorldMvc3\workspace\HelloWorldMvc3\obj\Debug\CSAutoParameterize\transformed\Views\".
  Copying Views\Web.config to obj\Debug\CSAutoParameterize\original\Views\Web.config.
  Copying obj\Debug\TransformWebConfig\transformed\Web.config to obj\Debug\CSAutoParameterize\original\Web.config.
AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStringsCore:
  Transforming Source File: C:\hudson\jobs\HelloWorldMvc3\workspace\HelloWorldMvc3\Views\Web.config
    Applying Transform File: <?xml version="1.0"?>
          <configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
            <connectionStrings>
              <add
                connectionString="{% token='$(ReplacableToken_#(parameter)_#(tokennumber))' xpathlocator='name' parameter='$(name)-Web.config Connection String' description='$(name) Connection String used in web.config by the application to access the database.' defaultValue='$(connectionString)' tags='SqlConnectionString' %}"
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    Not executing SetTokenizedAttributes (transform line 6, 15)
    Output File: obj\Debug\CSAutoParameterize\transformed\Views\Web.config
  Transformation succeeded
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    Applying Transform File: <?xml version="1.0"?>
          <configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
            <connectionStrings>
              <add
                connectionString="{% token='$(ReplacableToken_#(parameter)_#(tokennumber))' xpathlocator='name' parameter='$(name)-Web.config Connection String' description='$(name) Connection String used in web.config by the application to access the database.' defaultValue='$(connectionString)' tags='SqlConnectionString' %}"
                xdt:Transform="SetTokenizedAttributes(connectionString)" xdt:SupressWarnings="True" />
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    Output File: obj\Debug\CSAutoParameterize\transformed\Web.config
  Transformation succeeded
PostAutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings:
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  Auto ConnectionString Transformed obj\Debug\TransformWebConfig\transformed\Web.config into obj\Debug\CSAutoParameterize\transformed\Web.config.
CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackage:
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  Copying all files to temporary location below for package/publish:
  obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp.
  Copying bin\HelloWorldMvc3.dll to obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp\bin\HelloWorldMvc3.dll.
  Copying bin\HelloWorldMvc3.pdb to obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp\bin\HelloWorldMvc3.pdb.
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PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder:
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Package:
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  Generate source manifest file for Web Deploy package/publish ...
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PackageUsingManifest:
  Packaging into C:\MyProject\Package.zip.
  Starting Web deployment task from source:manifest(C:\MyProject\Package.SourceManifest.xml) to Destination:package(C:\MyProject\Package.zip).
  Adding package (package).
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This post is a visual guide about one of the most powerful features of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2008: Import/Export database data.

These tasks are useful for example when you need to debug an application with real world/production data to find possible bugs in your code. You can import the production database data to your local development database and find what’s causing problems. These tasks can be used to create a protection layer because you won’t be working “directly” with production data.

As you see, if I right click a database in SSMS I get access to this rich menu full of interesting options that deserve a careful study:

Looking at the above picture you see in Object Explorer that I’m connected to two SQL database servers. The first one is a remote SQL Server (version 10.0.2775) and the other one is my local SQL Server Express (version 10.50.1617) instance.

With this configuration I have the perfect scenario to visually show you how the Import/Export Data… menu options work.

In this blog post I’ll execute the Export Data task. This allows me to test my web application using my local SQL Server instance with real world/production data.
The Import Data… task does practically the same thing but in reverse, logically. I’ll let the execution of the Import task to you dear reader!

OK… If I proceed and select the Export Data… menu option I’ll be able to bring new data to the database that is located on my machine. Data comes from the remote/production server to my local copy of the same database.

After clicking Export Data…, SQL Server Import and Export Wizard pops up. I then select the Data source/Server name (from which Data source type and Server I want to get the data to be imported). In this case, the data comes from the remote SQL server. I use SQL Server Authentication, fill the user name and password and select the Database that’ll provide the data. In Server name field I used the IP address of my remote server.

Now is the time to choose the Destination. In this case it’s my local SQL Server instance. LENIEL-PC is my Windows 7 machine name. SQLEXPRESS is the default SQL Express server name. I also selected the Database I want to receive the imported data. As you see both databases (source and destination) have the same name to make things easy.

The wizard then asks if I want to copy data directly from table to table or if I want to write a custom SQL query to shape the data according to specific needs. I’ll select the first option to keep things simple.

In the next screen we get a beautiful list of available tables and views. I’ve selected two tables that I want to copy.

If you click the Edit Mappings… button (which applies to each table selected in the grid), I can also specify if I want to delete rows before importing data or if I want to append rows to the destination table. I’ll append rows because I have already erased both tables (exams and files) on my local database.

Table files is linked to table exams through a foreign key. I disabled this foreign key constraint in my local database to avoid conflicts/errors during the import process. Beware because conflicts do appear most of the time. Conflicts are generally related to key violation/duplication.

As I’m using the free SQL Server Express Edition, the following screen has an interesting information:

In SQL Server Express, Web, or Workgroup, you can run the package that the Import and Export Wizard creates, but cannot save it. To save packages that the wizard creates, you must upgrade to SQL Server Standard, Enterprise, Developer or Evaluation.

This is telling me that I’ll have to go over the wizard (#7 steps) again if I happen to execute this very import process. Really annoying… … but that’s the price you must pay when using free tools.

Next button once more (the last one hallelujah) and we’re ready to go. It’s just a matter of reviewing what’ll be done and pressing the finish button.

After clicking Finish I got this last window:

Hope this simple and visual guide helps you understand how the data Import and Export processes work when dealing with a SQL Server database inside SSMS.

Free tools
Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express (SSMSE)

Esta é uma aplicação web que nasceu através de uma parceria entre mim (o único desenvolvedor) e o proprietário de uma academia de ginástica ( a qual eu frequento ). O sistema está em uso e o proprietário/usuário está muito satisfeito.

A aplicação valoriza a simplicidade e é super fácil de usar.

A figura a seguir mostra a home page de onde o usuário pode acessar as funcionalidades da aplicação. Clique nela para ver uma versão ampliada...

A aplicação é composta por 5 módulos e possui Controle de Acesso baseado em cargos (Administrador, Professor, Usuário, etc).

Módulos
- Alunos
- Anamneses
- Medidas
- Pagamentos
- Relatórios ( baseados em gráficos e listas )

O sistema está disponível em Português do Brasil (pt-BR) e Inglês (en-US). Ele tem tudo pronto para o caso em que exista a necessidades de localizações adicionais. É completamente viável ter a aplicação em execução em qualquer outra cultura/idioma com pouco trabalho.

Estilos/cores/formatação e logotipo podem ser personalizados usando (CSS).

Tecnologias
A aplicação usa o estado da arte das tecnologias da pilha Microsoft, bem como bibliotecas de código aberto:

C#, .NET Framework 4, ASP.NET MVC 3, SQL Server Compact 4.1, CSS, jQuery 1.5.2, jQuery UI 1.8.12, jQuery Globalization 1.0, jQuery qTip2, modernizr 1.7, Microsoft MVC Ajax, Microsoft Chart Controls for. NET 4, WebGrid, Chirpy

Telas
Você pode ver screenshots da aplicação aqui.

Descrição
As seções subsequentes descrevem cada módulo e as ações que o usuário tem permissão para executar.

A lógica de negócios também é descrita ao longo do caminho se eu ver que ela se encaixa na descrição do módulo.

Não é minha intenção descrever cada regra de negócio da aplicação neste post. Este post é uma visão geral.

Alunos
Ações: Criar, Editar, Detalhes, Excluir
Este módulo trata de dados básicos do aluno como foto, nome e sobrenome, data de nascimento, endereço, sexo, telefone, e-mail, etc. 
Tudo no sistema está relacionado ao aluno. Isto significa que se um aluno é excluído, os dados de cada módulo que fazem referência aquele aluno também serão excluídos.
Alunos que estão em débito são destacados em vermelho na lista/grid de alunos.
Se o nome de um aluno é clicado na lista de alunos, o sistema leva o usuário à lista de pagamentos do respectivo aluno.

Anamneses
Ações: Criar, Editar, Detalhes, Excluir
Este módulo manipula as informações básicas sobre o histórico de saúde do aluno, tais como se o aluno é hipertenso, diabético, fumante, etc. Diferentes tipos de doenças também podem ser selecionados. Estas doenças são agrupadas em categorias, tais como doenças dos ossos e articulações, respiratórias e doenças da tireoide. O estilo da atividade física na qual um aluno se encaixa quando ele se matricula na academia também pode ser selecionado.

Medidas
Ações: Criar, Editar, Detalhes, Excluir
Este módulo trata das medidas das circunferências do corpo do aluno. Estas são as medidas que o sistema controla:
- Altura (m)
- Peso (kg)
- Gordura (%) 
- Pescoço (m)
- Tórax (m)
- Glúteos (m)
- Ombro (m)
- Abdome (m)
- Cintura (m)
- Braço Esquerdo (m)
- Braço Direito (m)
- Coxa Esquerda (m)
- Coxa direita (m)
- Panturrilha Esquerda (m)
- Panturrilha Direita (m)

O usuário é notificado através da lista de medidas se é hora de tomar novas medidas de um aluno. O intervalo de tempo entre as avaliações (medidas) pode ser configurado no sistema. Atualmente está definido como um intervalo de três meses.
A % de Gordura é calculada pelo sistema através de uma fórmula padrão (ver link). Se o usuário passar o mouse sobre o cabeçalho da coluna (%) Gordura na listagem de medidas ele verá uma tabela com valores padrão para % de gordura que inclui Essencial, Atleta, Fitness, Média e Obeso.

Pagamentos
Ações: Criar, Editar, Detalhes, Excluir
Este módulo é o coração do sistema, uma vez que lida com o que podemos chamar de a Raison d'être (razão de ser) de um sistema como este.
O sistema permite a criação de pagamentos para um determinado aluno.
O usuário define um valor de desconto (se necessário) e o campo total é calculado automaticamente. Depois disso uma data de pagamento deve ser selecionada. Há também um campo de observação no qual o usuário pode anotar alguma coisa importante relacionada ao pagamento.
O usuário sinaliza que o pagamento foi realizado marcando o campo pago.
Sempre que um pagamento é marcado como pago, o sistema gera um novo pagamento automaticamente (cópia do pagamento feito) para o mesmo aluno com a data de vencimento 1 mês à frente.

Relatórios
Este módulo gera 4 tipos de relatórios. São eles:

- Total de Pagamentos (gráfico)
O usuário seleciona uma data de início e uma data de fim para gerar um gráfico de colunas que agrupa os pagamentos por mês.

- Pagamentos em Atraso/Vencidos (grid/lista) 
O sistema gera automaticamente um relatório em formato de lista extraindo os dados dos pagamentos que têm uma data de vencimento inferior a uma data especificada. Por exemplo: pode-se conceder uma margem (em dias) para que o sistema considere que o aluno está em débito - 1 semana, 2 semanas, etc após a data do vencimento do pagamento. Isso pode ser configurado no sistema.

- % Alunos Ativos/Inativos (gráfico)
O sistema gera automaticamente um gráfico em formato de pizza que retrata muito bem essa informação.

- Medidas ao Longo do Tempo (gráfico)
O usuário seleciona um aluno e uma data de início e fim para gerar um belo gráfico de linhas que mostra o aumento/diminuição das medidas ao longo do tempo.

Por que comprar?
O principal benefício é que você terá um ponto central para gerenciar sua Academia de Ginástica. A partir dele você pode extrair informações valiosas dos dados. Isto te permite estar sempre um passo à frente para planejar seu próximo passo. Não haverá mais anotações em cadernos e com isso você deixará de perder dados importantes!

Instalação
A aplicação é um arquivo .zip (arquivo compactado) e possui todo o que é necessário para ser executada em um servidor web que tenha o .NET Framework 4 instalado.

Se precisar de ajuda adicional no que diz respeito à hospedagem web/instalação e configuração, eu também posso fazer isso por você. É só me avisar.

Há também a possibilidade de executar a aplicação em um servidor web local usando Microsoft WebMatrix por exemplo. É assim que instalei o sistema no computador do usuário. Fazendo dessa forma você não terá que pagar um provedor de hospedagem on-line. A única desvantagem neste caso é que você não será capaz de acessar a aplicação a partir de qualquer lugar.

Como comprar?
Basta clicar no botão abaixo para comprar esta app barata ( somente R$ 1.200,00 ) através do PayPal:

Depois de clicar no botão acima e concluir o processo de pagamento, escreva para mim e me informe sobre sua compra. Poderei, então, dar prosseguimento no processo de negociação entregando para você a aplicação através de e-mail. A aplicação está contida em um arquivo .zip pequeno ~4MB.

Software é um campo muito interessante porque você trabalha muito para construir uma aplicação, digamos meses, e o produto é apenas um pacote de alguns megabytes. Vai entender…

Direitos autorais
Este produto de software é protegido por direitos autorais.

Você pode ler a EULA aqui (em construção).

Suporte
Ficarei mais do que feliz em fornecer qualquer informação adicional que você precise para que a aplicação seja instalada e funcione em seu servidor.

Se você encontrar algum bug na aplicação eu prontamente irei corrigi-lo e disponibilizarei a aplicação atualizada para você.

Recursos adicionais
Se você precisar de qualquer outro recurso, seja ele um novo módulo ou relatório que não faz parte desta aplicação, apenas me informe e o considerarei para uma versão futura.

I needed a software that allowed me to capture screenshots of a web application I developed. The software should do it automatically (batch capture). This way it’d save me a lot of time.

How do I used to do that?
I visited each web page I wanted to take a screenshot. It took me about 1 hour to finish the work.

I posted a question at Super User as always: Software to automate website screenshot capture and got an answer suggesting that I use a combination of a URL fetcher + Selenium capability to take screenshots.

Well, I tried Selenium (.NET bindings selenium-dotnet-2.0rc3.zip ) to test its screenshot capture feature but it doesn’t seem to fit the job because it doesn’t allow you to configure screenshot properties as size (height x width). Moreover it doesn’t work well with Ajax (requires you to write a lot of code to check for the existence of Ajax calls, etc). This kills a screenshot that needs everything in place (I mean every DOM object should be part of the screenshot). I tried the 3 drivers available: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. Screenshots taken with Internet Explorer driver were close to what I expected.

This is a sample code I used based on the code taken from here:

using System;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Text;
using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.IE;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

namespace SeleniumTest
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class SeleniumExample
    {
        private FirefoxDriver firefoxDriver;
    
        #region Setup

        [SetUp]
        public void Setup()
        {
            firefoxDriver = new FirefoxDriver();
        }

        #endregion

        #region Tests

        [Test]
        public void DisplayReport()
        {
            // Navigate
            firefoxDriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost/FitnessCenter/Report/TotalPaymentsByPeriod");

            IWebElement startDate = firefoxDriver.FindElement(By.Name("StartDate"));
            
            startDate.Clear();
            startDate.SendKeys("January 2011");

            IWebElement generate = firefoxDriver.FindElement(By.Id("Generate"));
            generate.Click();

            var wait = new WebDriverWait(firefoxDriver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
            wait.Until(driver => driver.FindElement(By.Id("Map")));

            SaveScreenShot(firefoxDriver.Title);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Saves a screenshot of the current error page
        /// </summary>
        public void SaveScreenShot(string fileName)
        {
            // Get the screenshot
            Screenshot screenshot = firefoxDriver.GetScreenshot();

            // Build up our filename
            StringBuilder filename = new StringBuilder(fileName);
            filename.Append("-");
            filename.Append(DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH_mm_ss"));
            filename.Append(".png");

            // Save the image
            screenshot.SaveAsFile(filename.ToString(), ImageFormat.Png);
        }

        #endregion

        #region TearDown

        [TearDown]
        public void FixtureTearDown()
        {
            if (firefoxDriver != null) firefoxDriver.Close();
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

Indeed, Selenium is powerful for what it does, that is, helping you automate browser interactions while you test your code. It even allows you to take a screenshot let’s say when something goes wrong (a test fail for example). That’s great and that’s what it does best. It’s a choice for every operating system since it’s an API that can be programmed against.

What I needed was something more specialized to take screenshots. A software that allows me to configure screenshot properties. The good news is that I managed to find such piece of software and it’s called Paparazzi! - a very suggestive name by the way. One drawback is that it’s only available for Mac OS. As one would expect, it uses Safari browser engine behind the curtains to capture the screenshots. Paparazzi! has minor bugs but it gets the job done. It doesn’t have documentation. I had a hard time trying to make it work. It has batch capture capability but no docs explaining how to do it. So I hope this post will shed some light…

The following lines describe what I did to achieve my objective with Paparazzi!:

1 - Created a list of URLs I’d like to take screenshots of. Like this (one URL per line):

http://192.168.1.106/FitnessCenter/Account/ChangeCulture?lang=en&returnUrl=%2FFitnessCenter%2F
http://192.168.1.106/FitnessCenter/Student
http://192.168.1.106/FitnessCenter/Student/Create
http://192.168.1.106/FitnessCenter/Student/Edit/79
http://192.168.1.106/FitnessCenter/Student/Details/79
http://192.168.1.106/FitnessCenter/Student/Delete/79
http://192.168.1.106/FitnessCenter/Anamnesis
http://192.168.1.106/FitnessCenter/Anamnesis/Create
http://192.168.1.106/FitnessCenter/Anamnesis/Edit/79
http://192.168.1.106/FitnessCenter/Anamnesis/Details/79
.
.
.

2 - Open Paparazzi! and click the Window menu => Batch capture (really difficult to find this option ):

Picture 1 - Paparazzi! difficult to find Batch Capture menu option

3 - Drag and drop a text file .txt (the file that contains the URLs) to the Batch Capture window:

Picture 2 - Paparazzi! Batch Capture window surface

Here is where I think I found a limitation and it’s by design. This should definitely not happen IMHO. If you try to add a file clicking on ( + button), Paparazzi won’t let you select a text file. The only way I got it working was selecting the .txt file and then drag and dropping the file to the Batch Capture window.

4 - Configure screenshot properties by clicking the list button (see mouse cursor above it):

Picture 3 - Paparazzi! screenshot process basic configurations

You can define the screenshot size. There are pre-defined values for standard screen resolutions. It allows you to define new presets.

You can also delay the capture to wait the page finish loading, etc.

There are a set of configurations available related to the batch capture functionality. To access these configurations, go to Paparazzi! menu and select Preferences:

Picture 4 - Paparazzi! Preferences… menu option

The first configuration worth mentioning the Default Filename Format available in the General section:

Picture 5 - Paparazzi! General preferences section

Above I’m defining this format:

%t = page title
%Y = year
%m = month
%d = day
%H = hour
%M = minute
%S = second

The example in the picture is pretty clear…

Another set of configurations is available in the Batch capture section:

Picture 6 - Paparazzi! Batch Capture preferences section

Here you can choose where to save the screenshots as well as the type of the images.

After configuring the batch capture session, it’s the gran finale time...

5 - Click the Play button, go take a coffee and relax while the computer does the job for you .

Picture 7 - Paparazzi! Batch Capture in action

Hope you have found this post interesting and that it’s useful to help in documenting a little bit of this small but really powerful application.

Now I get all the screenshots in less than 1 minute!

References
Paparazzi!
http://derailer.org/paparazzi/