Tag: TFS
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
As we were looking back over the blog’s 2012 stats, I was struck (and humbled, honestly) at how many visitors we’ve received and the attention certain posts had garnered. Our five most popular posts in 2012 were: Ganz’s ClickOnce Publish and Deploy from Team Foundation Server 2010 Santi’s Developing Reports for SQL Server Reporting Services…
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Deploying Console Apps via MSBuild
VS2010 and MSBuild don’t provide a good way to deploy windows apps using continuous integration (especially to different environments). Over the past couple days I’ve wasted a lot of time manually deploying my apps to test them on dev. Brian Gansemer has talked about creating hooks for deploying ClickOnce apps as part of the build…
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Isolating 32-bit COM Components on 64-bit Build Servers
A few weeks back while getting Mako XRM ready for launch, I was working through an issue involving ClickOnce build and deployment. I was attempting to isolate a 32-bit COM component so it would not need to be registered on every end-user’s computer upon ClickOnce install. MSDN has a decent article describing the process (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165432(v=vs.80).aspx)…
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SELECT Build Deploy from TFS 2010
TFS has always provided great ways to build your projects and solutions: Builds are easily started and reviewed by different members on the team Builds are automatically versioned and backed up Work items and bugs can be associated with individual builds Deploying a web application is a slightly tricky matter. These apps are easily deployed…
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ClickOnce: Revisited
Recently we’ve received a couple comments on my blog post ClickOnce Publish and Deploy from Team Foundation Server 2010 so I thought we should do a follow-up post to share what we’ve learned. One of our readers, Anye, was having some trouble getting the build to copy the published ClickOnce application over into the ClickOnce…
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Remote Shelving/Unshelving Changes in Team Foundation Server
Let’s talk shelving. Not the kind you try to build in your garage that never fits together, and not a bunch of milk cartons stacked on each other. I’m talking about source control shelvesets. Think of them as a snapshot of your local workspace at a given time. We use them a lot in many…
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ClickOnce Publish and Deploy from Team Foundation Server 2010
Overview ClickOnce technology is a very powerful way to distribute your applications to end users. It is especially nice for easily distributing updates to your application. Even if you don’t plan to distribute your application using ClickOnce technology, it is still a great tool for deploying daily updates for QA during development. However, publishing and…
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“Transforming” App.Config Files in a TFS Build
Do you develop using your production or staging SQL server? If so, please don’t. If not, great! How do you keep track of which Web.Config is pushed to your server? VS2010 has an improved Web Deploy process that allows you to use config transforms to adjust your Web.Config files based on the build configuration. Scott…
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