The ability to automatically deploy a site on Azure Web Site from TFService is really interesting, but sadly enough there is no out-of-the-box solution to update the structure of an Azure Database with a VS2012 Database Project. In this post I’ll show how to modify the standard build template to deploy a Database Project during [...]
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Tfs on azure is a a perfectly valid solution to have your TFS hosted by Microsoft, no worries about upgrading, maintaining, backup and most important, it is available from every computer that has an internet connection. This last factor can be really interesting for companies where people sometimes works from home, or from an hotel [...]
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In a previous post I dealt with the creation of a Custom Activity to use in TFS2010 builds, in that example I did not dealt about logging. Logging is a vital task to do in custom action, because it is quite difficult to attach a debugger to the Build Agent, and if a build fails, [...]
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When you develop web applications you usually have X developers solving bugs and implementing features, and a series of testers that test application during developing process. A must to have requirement is that Modifications to the trunk are visible as soon as possible to testers. Data in test database gets preserved Point 2 is especially [...]
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One of the most important stuff in a project build, is the ability to mark the assemblies with unique numbers that permits us to reproduce the build. Tfs does not have a standard way of doing this, but with a couple of MsBuild actions it is really simple to overcome this limitation. This is a [...]
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