Karsten Kempe Who Broke the Build? Continuous Integration and automatic builds are fantastic tools for software teams, but only if developers take responsibility for their code. Karsten Kempe explains how to... 29 August 2014 15 min read
Alexander Karmanov Automating SQL Server Database Deployments: Scripting Details To wrap up the series on Database Deployment Challenges, Alexander takes a dive into the details of how he scripted a solution and comes up... 06 June 2013 30 min read
Alexander Karmanov Automating SQL Server Database Deployments: A Worked Example Alex talks through a simple practical example of a database deployment, First creating a empty database and then upgrading it through three steps by writing... 27 February 2013 21 min read
James Moore The Benefits of Regular Deployment When developing software, it makes sense to 'fail early, fail often'; to become aware of mistakes quickly and to learn from them. This means being... 13 December 2012 14 min read
William Brewer Database Deployment Cribsheet As part of our long-running Cribsheet series, we asked William to write a guide to deployment that described in general terms what is involved in... 29 October 2012 14 min read
Dave Ballantyne Cleaning Up SQL Server Deployment Scripts Although, generally speaking, source control is the truth, a database doesn't quite conform to the ideal because the target schema can, for valid reasons, contain... 02 August 2012 22 min read
Phil Wilson Build and Deploy a .NET COM Assembly Phil Wilson demonstrates how to build and deploy a .NET COM assembly using best practices, and how to access it from early and late binding... 15 May 2006 28 min read
Phil Wilson Getting Started With Setup Projects This article describes the basics of Visual Studio setup and deployment projects. Subsequent articles will cover more on custom actions, .NET installer classes, and an... 25 April 2005 18 min read
