Skip to main content

Continuous Integration

File: .github/workflows/dotnet.yml

The repository uses a single GitHub Actions workflow, named ".NET Framework", to validate that the solution builds successfully.

Triggers​

on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ "main" ]

The workflow runs on every push to main and on every pull request targeting main.

Job: build​

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: windows-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - name: Restore NuGet packages
      run: nuget restore EZInfiniteYTLive.sln
    - uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v2
    - name: Build with MSBuild
      run: msbuild EZInfiniteYTLive.sln /p:Configuration=Release
    # Add your test step here as needed

Runs on a windows-latest runner (required, since the project is a WinForms/.NET Framework app) and performs:

  1. Checkout — actions/checkout@v4 clones the repository.
  2. Restore — nuget restore EZInfiniteYTLive.sln downloads NuGet dependencies declared by the solution/project.
  3. Set up MSBuild — microsoft/setup-msbuild@v2 locates and adds msbuild.exe to the runner's PATH.
  4. Build — msbuild EZInfiniteYTLive.sln /p:Configuration=Release compiles the solution in Release configuration (default AnyCPU platform, since none is specified).

What the pipeline does not currently do​

  • No automated tests — the workflow comment explicitly notes: # Add your test step here as needed. There is currently no test project in the solution.
  • No artifact publishing — the built .exe is not uploaded as a workflow artifact or attached to a release.
  • No linting/static analysis step.
  • No multi-platform matrix build — only the default AnyCPU platform is built, even though the .csproj defines x86/x64/ARM64 configurations.

These are reasonable areas to improve if you're looking to contribute — e.g. adding an actions/upload-artifact step to publish the built executable, or adding a unit test project for VideoStreamer's file-discovery logic.

Reproducing CI locally​

Since the workflow is just two commands, you can reproduce it on a Windows machine (or Windows-hosted runner) with the Developer Command Prompt for VS or any shell with msbuild/nuget on PATH:

nuget restore EZInfiniteYTLive.sln
msbuild EZInfiniteYTLive.sln /p:Configuration=Release

See Building From Source for more detail.