Archive for March, 2008
Since I launched TFSBuild.com - the Team Build & MSBuild Recipes site earlier this year, it’s been averaging ~50 visits a day.
There’s some great recipes up now thanks to some contributors like dmcewing, Michael Ruminer, Martin Woodward, Mike Douglas and Eugene Zakhareyev.
Keeping the Build Number and Assembly Version in sync
Build and Assembly [...]
Filed under: OzTFS, TFSBuild.com, Team Foundation Server | 1 Comment
In my previous post I described how you can use MSI Transform (*.mst) files to separate environment-specific configuration settings from a generic MSI package.
Although this provides a level of flexibility in your configuration, there are two down-sides of Transform files:
They’re a binary format
You can’t “edit” or “view” a transform file. You have to [...]
Filed under: TFSBuild.com | 5 Comments
In the different applications development areas that I’ve worked in, the typical process for getting a product installed is something like this:
Developers are responsible for building the installation package (a WiX MSI is preferred)
Then it’s left up to IT to update the config files
And IT deploy the installer to a server [...]
Filed under: TFSBuild.com | 1 Comment
As a developer in a corporate environment I always seem to be dealing with blockers. My definition comes from the popular video game of my childhood: Lemmings.
“Blockers” will reverse the direction of all lemmings that hit them, and cannot be reassigned unless first the ground under their feet is removed.
A blocker is another type [...]
Filed under: Technology | 2 Comments
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