Given people, process and tools, what should you optimize your software development technology strategy around? This is the question that has been at the top of mind recently. Setting the right technology strategy for any size business can be difficult given the many complex factors involved, especially for larger enterprises. The primary goal, of course, …
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After attending some really great leadership training from Kimball Fisher (author of Leading Self-Drected Work Teams and other great books) at work this week, I decided I must do better with setting the goals and agenda for meetings in hopes that attendees come more prepared and the meetings are more effective. I have thought to …
Very few .NET developers ever look at the XML inside their .csproj file or further understand how it all works. The good news is its not that difficult to understand. In this post we will see how you can create a custom project file for a Nuget package project. The default ASP.NET csproj file has …
My team has used TFS in our private datacenter for over six years now as our primary source control, build and test management system. We utilize TFS build definitions, as described in my last blog post, to perform all our application building, packaging and testing. When we started down the path toward Continuous Delivery three …
We use TFS 2015 to handle all of our .NET application builds as part of our CD process and it works GREAT! In this post I will review how we use TFS in each step of the process. Gated Check-ins We have used Gated Check-ins for several years now to ensure our code is of …
I’ve seen lots of questions recently regarding if/how deployment of ASP.NET Core applications changed from previous versions of ASP.NET. The good news is many of the old capabilities exist, although you will likely have to adjust your deployment processes to utilize them. In this post, I will cover how to deploy an ASP.NET Core application …
If you follow my tweets you, probably know I’m a big fan of the new build/release system in TFS 2015 and VSTS. It is super flexible and supports so many new use cases. We upgraded from TFS 2010 to 2015 last year and have been using the build system successfully since. We typically have 4 …
In an effort to make using the MSDeployAllTheThings Nuget packages as easy to use as possible, I have updated the SQLDeploy framework to default to using DacPacs and provide parameterization files. These are the two most useful features of the framework in my opinion and were not highlighted appropriately. Now packaging your SQL Server database …
I recently blogged about where to start CD, with test or deployment automation? The conclusion I came to was neither answer is correct, you should work on both incrementally because one without the other is not very useful. Working on both should produce more value to customers quicker even if each moves slower individually. I …
I just wanted to share a quick post regarding some information I found today about the future of WCF and .NET Core. This has been a hot topic over the last few months and there has been a lot of incorrect information floating around so I hope this helps clear some of that up. The …