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Packaging and Building Software Factories - Part 2, Automated Builds with Team Foundation Server


Part 2 of the short series on packaging and building software factories with team foundation build.

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"In the first part of the series ‘Packaging with Visual Studio 2005’ we saw what project types are commonly used in software factory solutions today (VSX, GAT and DSL), and how to create a combined installation package for deploying such a software factory using either standard VS setup projects and WIX setup projects. In this second part of the series we are going to look at how to automate the development and build of such software factory solutions, and their installers, in a team foundation build environment using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS).

In normal solution development where source code files represent the primary design-time artifacts, there exist source language compilers to verify whether source code is valid, and these tools compile that source into assemblies for packaging with installers. This compilation is invoked both on a developer’s machine and easily automated on a build server, in team build environments..."

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