An older app in our workplace stack is a webforms website project and it has a large enough directory structure to take a while to compile the site. I have to run the site a fair amount for a rewrite effort and it changes enough to make the initial build and run painfully slow. Since…
The Goal Recently I worked on a PowerShell module to do various application build related functions on development machines. One side objective was multi-level activity progress reporting with time estimation so activity duration could be gauged over time. The desire was for this to be done generically and quickly as it was more of a…
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…
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 Types of Deployment Scripts We currently have different deployment scripts that are run independently though there is a desire to chain them together…
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 In the last post in this series I discussed an overview of some build and deployment automation goals and covered some pre-build activities.…