Automated Upload of the File Mapping XML file

Question

We'd like to incorporate WER into our build process.  After our build, we plan to run the File Mapping tool on our distribution directory to generate the XML file.

 

Once we have the XML file how do we upload that to the WinQual site?  I know there's a web page you can go to and interactively upload it, but this is not ideal.  We'd like the whole process to be automated and requiring someone to manually go upload this file doesn't see like a good approach.

 

Is there a way to upload the XML file in an automated manner?  i.e. an FTP site or something similar?

 

Thanks!

Answer 1

Dave,

 

This is a feature request that we've heard from a number of customers.  It's planned for a future release, but we don't have a date as yet.  It is the logical next step once we expose a new set of Web APIs that will allow ISVs to automate the download process (the next planned release), but it will require some significant work at our end to modify the plumbing to accomodate.

 

Feel free to contact me directly with more specific questions and feature requests.  We keep them filed and refer regularly.  Since y'all are the ones using the tools, we need to know what is needed.

 

Cheers,

 

b

 

Answer 2

My organization would like to do the same. There are now web services for WER which should allow us to create a build extension to do this.

http://wer.codeplex.com/ and a blog from the developers http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wer/archive/2009/06/12/using-the-product-mapping-file-upload-web-service.aspx

Answer 3

These services are currently not working due to the recent changes on WINQUAL.