Continuous deployment is described by Wikipedia as: Most CI systems allow the running of scripts after a build finishes. In most situations, it is possible to write a script to deploy the application to a live test server that everyone can look at. A further advance in this way of thinking is Continuous Deployment, which calls for the software ...

In my blog post SQL Server devs–what source control system do you use, if any? (answer and maybe win free stuff) of 18th October 2012 I complained about one aspect of Source Control in Team Foundation Server (TFS) that infuriates me: …there are aspects to TFS source control that annoy me day-in, day-out. Chief among them has to be the fact ...

In my last cloud-related post - Introducing TFSPreview: Application Lifecycle Management in the Cloud! – I covered how you can create an account to use Microsoft Team Foundation Server in the cloud via a cool new service called TFSPreview. In this post, we’ll cover connecting Visual Studio 2010 to TFSPreview and adding a project to TFS Version ...

At last week’s Build conference in Anaheim California, Microsoft unveiled TFSPreview.com. I was able to score access so I set up access to the server, updated Visual Studio 2010, and began playing around with the functionality. This post describes what I needed to do to get my workstation ready for ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) in the ...

I recently joined a new client at which Team Foundation Server (TFS) is being used as the source control repository and Continuous Integration (CI) server (I think these things collectively gets referred to as Application Lifecycle Management or ALM for short). I'm fairly ambivalent as to which ALM tools gets used on my projects (in the past ...