Extends Cake to create Apprenda Application Packages (also known as Apprenda Archives) from a Visual Studio solution for use with the Apprenda Cloud Platform. For those not familiar with Cake, Cake (C# Make) is a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages. You can learn more at https://cakebuild.net/

This is an alternative method for creating Apprenda Archives without needing to use ACS.exe (Apprenda Cloud Shell) or the Visual Studio Extension for Apprenda.

This project consists of the following key items

• Build: Contains the parameters for Cake
• src: Contains the source code for the Apprenda Application. TimeCard from http://docs.apprenda.com/downloads is used as an example
• build.cake: Contains the logic for building the solution, copying the files, and packaging everything into the Apprenda archive
• build.ps1: The powershell wrapper script to invoke Cake

This is a 3 tier application, with an ASP.NET user interface, a WCF service, and a Data Tier component that will be deployed on SQL Server

• root contains the ASP.NET user interface
• TimeCard.Service is the WCF service (depends on TimeCard.Data)
• ApplicationProvisioning_Script.sql contains the SQL Data Tier definition (tables, relationships, initial data, etc)
• DeploymentManifest.xml contains the Apprenda-specific configuration settings for this application

This example was meant as a template so that you can reuse this method with any application you want to upload in Apprenda.

• Replace this TimeCard application with the source code for the application of your choice. The source code needs to go into the \src\ directory
• Make sure that any ASP.NET user interface components define the config file Properties\PublishProfiles\Staging.pubxml
• Make the necessary changes to parameters.cake for the application you are building. For example look for the "// Start - Configurable data" section
• Make any process changes for building, copying files, and packaging the archive in the build.cake file

• Clone this repository
• Make any necessary modification to the Cake files
• Make any necessary modifications to the source code for the application you intend to package
• Simply execute .\build.ps1 from a PowerShell window and watch Cake do its magic
• The binaries for your application will go to folder {applicationName}_Binaries
• You will find Apprenda application package (.zip file) in the folder {applicationName}__ApprendaArchive. You can deploy this zip file to the Apprenda Cloud Platform directly using the Developer Portal, or can use this file as part of a larger CI/CD system that automatically deploys applications to Apprenda

If you would like to debug your Cake process, you can follow the steps outlined in https://cakebuild.net/blog/2016/05/debug-cake-file. The build.ps1 PowerShell file supports a new parameter called DebugCake that will trigger the debugging process. Invoke as .\build.ps1 -DebugCake