Discussion about common problems and solutions with source control usage. Overview of the new Visual Studio 2010 Source Control features

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Presenter: Mel Gerats
7 April, 2010
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In this presentation
Discuss source control standards
Discuss deployment standards
Overview of Team Foundation Server 2010 features

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Goals
Have Source Control standards
Have Deployment standards
Improve versioning
Improve deployability
Reduce manual actions

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Current situation: Source Control
Trunk
Branches

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Current situation: Source Control
Work is done on the trunk (most of the time)
Branches are used as back-up

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Current situation: Deployment
Copy paste
“publish” to staging
Always manual actions
Sql scripts

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Problems
Builds get broken
Not always a deployable version available
Not always possible to check in stuff
If there are multiple versions which one to deploy?

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What do we want
Automate everything
One Click deploy
Use more TFS features!
Always be able to deploy changes
Never break the build

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Demo Time
Demo Team Foundation Server 2010

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What will we do?
Create clear guidelines for source control usage based on Visual
Studio TFS Branching Guide 2010
Start using Team Foundation Server 2010
Start really using build automation / msdeploy

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Challenges
Nunit / NCover automation
Overview of all builds like CruiseControl

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Resources
Team Foundation Server 2010 related questions on
Stackoverflow
Visual Studio TFS Branching Guide 2010
Team Foundation Server Team Blog (lots of info there!)
Team System Development Center