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Posts Tagged ‘Team Foundation Server’

Azure DevOps: Scale Out Your Build System

Every developer knows that builds are an integral piece to the Application Lifecycle. Using an automated build and testing process will help speed the time to market for your application. Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server offers a number of features to help with this process. To use Team Foundation Build for automated building and testing […]

Ignite 2015 – DevOps Strategy, Visual Studio Online Announcements

For my first session at Microsoft Ignite Conference 2015, I chose DevOps as a Strategy for Business Agility by Brian Harry, Microsoft Technical Fellow and he serves as the Product Unit Manager for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. I must say, it was a great choice. Brian kicked off this amazing session with only a few, very […]

Team Build 2010: XML Transforms on Team Build 2010 for Non-Web Application Projects

One of the cool new features of Visual Studio 2010 Web Application projects are web.config transforms which allow you to use different settings in your web.config file without needing to remember to change them every time you compile the project. More information can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465326.aspx. In a nutshell, you can provide additional settings […]

Team Build 2010: Deploying a Database with MSBuild on Team Build 2010

If you missed my last post on automating deployments across domains with Team Build 2010, you can find it here.   The Problem In this post, I’m going to discuss automating deployment of a database project to a database using Team Build 2010. Out of the box, you can build the database project, but that […]