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Below are some sample tasks that worked for me (fschwiet), though I'm new to cruise control. Note that using a single apostrophe in the properties was necessary, double quotes would not work.

Note that to make this work on older versions of psake, I needed to add a line to psake.ps1. Older versions may be missing a call to "exit $LastErrorCode" as the last line.

For this example, the source control provider has been configured to put the code at c:\build\ProjectName.git.

<tasks>
<powershell>
<!-- http://ccnetlive.thoughtworks.com/ccnet/doc/CCNET/PowerShell%20Task.html -->
<script>psake.ps1</script>
<scriptsDirectory>c:\build\ProjectName.git</scriptsDirectory>
<executable>powershell.exe</executable>
<buildArgs>.\psakefile.ps1 -properties @{
buildDirectory = 'c:\build\ProjectName.msbuild\';
tempPath = 'c:\build\ProjectName.TestDatabases';
sqlConnectionString = 'Database=''MyDB'';Data Source=.\;Integrated Security=True'
}
</buildArgs>
<successExitCodes>0</successExitCodes> <!-- via powershell, $LastExitCode -->
<description>Run psake script</description>
</powershell>
</tasks>

The build output is hard to read and I don't think any of Cruise Control's built in view templates address that. I created a minimalistic stylesheet so the result is somewhat readable:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="buildresults" select="/cruisecontrol/build/buildresults" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="$buildresults" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="buildresults">
<hr/>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="message">
<pre style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><xsl:value-of select="text()"/>\</pre>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>