Sunday, June 16, 2013

Build artifacts viewer done right


Building deployment pipeline for the project usually involves integration of different systems which produce all kinds of "artifacts" - binaries, archives, images, etc.

In TeamCity, it usually looks like this:

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Provisioning ASP.NET development environment - Chocolatey and internal file shares

When people hear the word "provisioning", they usually start thinking about creating virtual machines in the cloud, deployment with Sitecore PowerCore, etc. But it can be also applied to the developer workstations.

For example, for a typical ASP.NET application development, you'll need a machine with:

  1. IIS and related OS features
  2. Git, TortoiseSVN, etc.
  3. SQL Server
  4. Visual Studio (with extensions)
The first one is easy, you can manage windows features using PowerShell, read more about it here.

Typical script may look like this: