Automated Build Studio Operations

Automated Build Studio comes with over 660 built-in operations that let you automate a wide variety of tasks. The operations are organized into the following categories:

Category	Description
.NET Tools	Operations to run various .NET utilities to process your .NET-connected applications.
Archivers	Operations that let you pack and unpack files using various compression formats.
Authenticode	Operations that allow to sign and check signed files using the Microsoft Authenticode technology.
AutomatedQA Tools	Operations to run other products by AutomatedQA Corp. and interact with them.
Borland Compilers	Operations that let you compile projects with Borland and CodeGear compilers installed on your computer.
Build Tools	Operations to run automated builds using external build tools
Burn CD/DVD	Operations that let you create ISO images, write ISO images as well as arbitrary files and folders to a CD or DVD disk, erase rewritable disks and so on.
Communication	Operations to send and receive e-mail and news messages as well as send messages via MSN Messenger or ICQ.
Concurrent Versions System	Operations to work with Concurrent Versions System (CVS). They let you retrieve files from CVS, put them into it, etc.
Execute	Operations to run programs from macros.
Files and Directories	Operations to work with files and folders (creating, copying and moving files and folders).
Frequently Used	Operations that you have most frequently used when creating macros.
FTP	Operations to browse the contents of FTP servers, as well as download and upload files from / to them.
Help Compilers	Operations to compile help files in HLP, CHM and other formats.
HTTP	Operations to browse the contents of HTTP servers, as well as get and post data from / to them.
Internet Information Services (IIS)	Operations that allow you to manage Web and FTP sites on a local or remote computer.
Installers	Operations to build installation packages using tools such as InstallShield and Wise.
Interactive	Operations that let you create various dialog boxes in order to input or select values, display messages and select files and folders.
Issue Tracking	Operations that let your macros create and modify items stored in different issue tracking systems.
JediVCS	Operations that work with the Jedi Version Control System. For example, checking files in and out.
Logging	Operations that let you control the logging of macro runs and export the whole log contents or its part to a file.
Microsoft Compilers	Operations that let you compile projects with Microsoft compilers installed on your computer.
Microsoft Compilers for Smart Device	Operations that let you compile projects with Microsoft compilers for Smart Device installed on your computer.
Microsoft Source Server	Operations that let you index PDB files for various source control systems as well as read data from and write it to a PDB stream.
Microsoft Virtual PC	Operations that control virtual machines running via Microsoft Virtual PC.
Microsoft Virtual Server	Operations that control virtual machines running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe	Operations that work with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. They let you retrieve files from VSS, put them into it, etc.
Misc	Miscellaneous operations that let you insert comments into macros, pause the macro execution, wait until a specific window appears, etc.
MySQL	Operations that let you maintain MySQL Server databases and execute SQL queries and scripts over them.
Oracle	Operations that work with Oracle Database System. They let you back up, restore and recover databases as well as to execute RMAN and SQLPlus scripts.
Other Compilers	Operations that let you compile projects with miscellaneous compilers installed on your computer.
Patch Management	Operations used to work with patch managements tools such as IncUpdate Builders or Visual Patch.
Perforce	Operations that work with Perforce. They let you retrieve files from Perforce, put them into it, etc.
Prepare Code	Operations used to compress, decompress and encrypt executables and libraries.
PsTools	Operations that work with system utilities from the PsTools suite.
PVCS	Operations to work with Merrant PVCS Version Manager. They let you retrieve files from PVCS and put them into it.
Rational ClearCase	Operations that work with Rational ClearCase. Using them you can check in, check out, lock, unlock and perform other actions with files and objects stored in the Rational ClearCase repository.
Read/Write	Operations used to work with text, INI files and the system registry.
Remote Macro Execution	Operations that let you run macros and monitor macro runs on other computers in the network.
SourceGear Vault	Operations that work with SourceGear Vault. They let you retrieve files from a SourceGear Vault repository, put them into it, etc.
Source Code Tools	Operations that analyze source code files for different compilers.
SourceOffSite	Operations that work with SourceOffSite. They let you retrieve files from a SourceOffSite repository, put them into it, etc.
SQL	Operations to execute SQL queries and scripts.
Standard	General operations to organize loops, conditionally execute a group of operations, etc.
StarTeam	Operations that work with Borland StarTeam. They let you retrieve files from StarTeam, put them into it, etc.
String Manipulation	Operations that let you perform various operations over string values: concatenate strings, replace characters in a string, extract substrings, change letter case, manipulate path strings and so on.
Subversion	Operations that work with Subversion. They let you retrieve files from Subversion, put them into it, etc.
Surround SCM	Operations that work with Surround SCM. They let you retrieve files from Surround SCM, put them into it, etc.
Team Coherence	Operations that work with Quality Software Components Team Coherence. They let you retrieve files from Team Coherence, put them into it, etc.
Team Foundation Version Control	Operations that work with Microsoft Team Foundation Version Control. They let you retrieve files from Team Foundation Version Control, put them into it, and so on.
Unit Tests	Operations that can run various test utilities to test units of your application.
VMware Server	Operations that control virtual machines running under VMware server.
VMware Workstation	Operations that control virtual machines running on VMware workstation.
Wait	Operations used to suspend macro executions until certain events occur.
WMI	Operations that let you start, pause and stop services, run and terminate processes, etc. on a remote or on your local computer. These operations use Windows Management Instrumentation.
XML	Operations that let you work with XML files.