There was a lot of confusion about the document type providers in the last couple of months. The reason was Tomas Petricek and Co. worked on an improved version in the FSharp.Data project and most people lost track which feature was in which project. In order to make things clearer I removed the Freebase, CSV, [...]

The current version of FAKE contains two tasks for Xamarins xpkg format. These are already used in Daniel Nauck’s Portable.Licensing project (read more about this project). Sample usage: Thank you Daniel for this contribution.

"Portable.Licensing is a cross platform open source software licensing framework which allows you to implement licensing into your application or library. It is targeting the Portable Class Library and thus runs on nearly every .NET/Mono profile including Silverlight, Windows Phone, Windows Store App, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Mac and XBox 360. Use it for your Desktop- (WinForms, [...]

Today I released two new AssemblyInfo tasks for FAKE and marked the old one as obsolete. One advantage of the new tasks is that they only generate the specified attributes and no more. There are already a lot of predefined attributes but it’s also possible to specify new ones. Here is a small example:

In this short sample I assume you have the latest version of FAKE in ./FAKE/tools/. Now consider the following small FAKE script: If you are on windows then create this small redirect script: On mono you can use: Now you can run FAKE targets easily from the command line: This gives us the power to [...]