alkampfer on August 10th, 2010

Now that I’m able to deploy to a remote machine a web application thanks to a customized build workflow it is time to move to a real scenario. I’ve blogged about two distinct tasks

executing arbitrary code with a tfs build
deploy an application to a remote server with a custom tfs workflow

Now I want to move [...]

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alkampfer on July 10th, 2010

It is time to connect together a couple of posts of mine, in the first I simply explained how to deploy a web application to a remote machine with the use of Beyondexec2, in another one I explained how to create a simple tfs build, that actually does not build anything, but execute a simple [...]

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alkampfer on July 7th, 2010

When you deal with continuous integration, building source is just one part of the problem, you need to run test, calculate metrics, deploy on test server and so on. To orchestrate the execution of integration scripts you need an infrastructure that is capable of scheduling, logging, distribution of agent and a central point of manteniance, [...]

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alkampfer on June 14th, 2010

In last post I explain how to run code coverage during a Tfs Build and I mentioned the fact that to run code coverage you need to have Visual Studio premium or ultimate in the build machine. But what happens when you have multiple configured test agent, and only some of them have VS installed?
The [...]

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alkampfer on June 14th, 2010

To have Code Coverage collection for test execution during a build, you first need to create a .testsettings file in the solution with code coverage enabled. To enable code coverage simply open the testsetting file, go to “Data And Diagnostics” and check the “Code coverage” option. This is not enough, because when you check the [...]

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