Visual Studio Team Services is the formally know Visual Studio Online. The old name brought a lot of confusion I think the new name will do a lot better. Yesterday they announced the Public Preview of Release Management in VSTS named Release Management Service. This service will help you automate deployment to multiple environments. If…
With the component created in part 2 we can start using it to deploy applications to our SharePoint environment. We start by creating a new template. For this post I assume you already created the release paths and have added the SharePoint servers to Release Management. To create a new template open Release Management and…
In the first part of the series we have adjusted a build template in order to copy content from source control to the drop location after the build. This content can then be used to supply release management with information about the deployment. This functionality will be used to copy a configuration file to the…
If you want to use the BizTalk Deployment framework in combination with Release Management you need to adjust the default build template that comes with Release Management. If you did not find it already you can find the default build template in the installation folder of release management. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Release Management\Client\bin\ReleaseTfvcTemplate.12.xaml…
In one of my previous post (Configuring Web Site Binding with Release Management) I showed how you can make a custom action for Release Management to configure web bindings. As described in that post Release Management is a tool that provides a continuous deployment solution that makes release cycles repeatable, visible, and more efficient by…
Release Management provides a continuous deployment solution that makes release cycles repeatable, visible, and more efficient by automating deployments through every environment from test to production. Within Release Management you have al large set of default Actions and Components to configure a release cycle. On MSDN you can find a list with some common actions…