Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments

Series Index Build Automation Part 1: Overview and Pre-build Tasks Build Automation Part 2: Building and Packaging Build Automation Part 3: App Deployment Script Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments Unlike deploying the application itself in its entirety each time, database and report items have required incremental deployments due to their nature and…

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Silverlight + WCF + IIS + Windows Auth + Oracle EF = PAIN

A couple days ago I started converting our Silverlight 4 app’s website and IIS-hosted WCF (v4) service to use Windows Authentication. The goal was to secure the service and data, get the user’s credentials down to the data tier and database, and provide some auditing and general security without asking for credentials already available for…
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