Continuous deployment is described by Wikipedia as: Most CI systems allow the running of scripts after a build finishes. In most situations, it is possible to write a script to deploy the application to a live test server that everyone can look at. A further advance in this way of thinking is Continuous Deployment, which calls for the software ...

Over the past eighteen months I have worked on four separate projects for customers that wanted to make use of Visual Studio 2010 Database projects to manage their database schema.* All the while I have been trying to take lots of notes in order that I can write the blog post that you are reading right now – a compendium of experiences and tips ...

The information in this blog post may be of interest to anyone out there that is using Continuous Integration with msbuild in order to build/deploy a project that includes SSIS packages. The MSBuild Extension Pack at http://msbuildextensionpack.codeplex.com/ now includes an MSBuild task that will build an SSIS project, the output from which is a ...

[This blog post assumes a familiarity with the terms Continuous Integration (CI), MSBuild & MSTest. If you don’t have a good appreciation of those terms then this blog post probably isn’t for you anyway so don’t worry about it!] Over the past few days I have been working to get database unit tests executing as part of our Continuous ...