1. An Intro to ALM
Using TFS and Visual Studio for Source Control, Build Automation, Continuous Integration, Deployments, and Task Management

2. What is ALM? Application Lifecycle Management
Another great Buzz Acronym for resumes
Process and tools for design, development, testing, deployment and management of software projects.
Creating software is more than just writing code
Many of the concepts and implementations in this demo are easy and straightforward. Putting it all together in a complex environment is not.

3. Our Setup TFS On Premise. Running on my laptop. We’ll use TFS for:
Task Tracking
Source Control
CI – Continuous Integration
Automated Deployments
Not included:
Automated Testing
QA Integration
Dev Ops
More

4. Why is this important Task Tracking Source Control
Continuous Integration
Automation

5. Don’t Wait This may be the most important slide in this section.
Don’t allow ALM to be an after thought… you’ll never have time later.

6. Set Up TFS Customize TFS to meet your needs Iterations Areas Teams
Create your own Work Item Types (Enhancement, Deliverable)
Edit WIT add fields, defaults, lists, rules, etc.
Tasks – Organize by feature, not by file

7. The Plan Create a new project Set up a CI Build
Then add a database and add that to the CI Build
Setup a “Deploy” Build
Creates a Deployment Package
Deploys to QA
Every build is a release candidate. No touch.
Setup a process to deploy same package to Production (or UAT, etc)

8. Create a new Web Project
Here we go…

9. CI Build
This build will “check our work”, compile, deploy to Integration Server
Set Source Control Folder
Build Defaults
Copy to: \\asuslt\BuildOutput
Agent Settings
Create Work Item on Failure: False
Don’t forget an original name for the builds - ANDY

10. Set up IIS (This is done already)
Install Web Deploy
Create Site EndToEndIntegration (port 71)
Create Site EndToEndQA (port 72)
Create Site EndToEndProd (port 73)

11. Integration Publish Profile
Server: localhost
SiteName: EndToEndIntegration
DestinationUrl: localhost:71
Update Build with:
/p:DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=Integration

12. Set Up Publish Profiles and Transforms
SysTest.pubxml
QA.pubxml
<appSettings>
<add xdt:Transform="Replace" value="Integration" key="Environment" xdt:Locator="Match(key)"/>
</appSettings>
Web.Integration.config
Web.QA.config

13. DacPac
Create Project
(Databases already exist on server, for ease of demo)
Create Dev Publish Profile
Dev.publish.xml
Publish Manually
Create Integration Profile
Integration.publish.xml
/p:DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=Integration;CreatePackageOnPublish=t rue /t:build /t:publish /p:SqlPublishProfilePath=Integration.publish.xml

14. Connection String Add Connection string for Dev:
<add name="EndToEnd" connectionString="Server=AsusLT;Database=EndToEndDev;User ID=ElmahManager;Password=elmah;Integrated Security=false;Trusted_Connection=false;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
Update Web.config Transform for Integration
<connectionStrings>
<add name="EndToEnd"
connectionString="Server=AsusLT;Database=EndToEndIntegration;User ID=ElmahManager;Password=elmah;Integrated Security=false;Trusted_Connection=false;"
xdt:Transform="SetAttributes" xdt:Locator="Match(name)"/>
</connectionStrings>

15. Deploy Build Trigger: Manual
/p:DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=QA;CreatePackageOnPublish=t rue /t:build /t:publish /p:SqlPublishProfilePath=QA.publish.xml

16. Getting to UAT and Prod
I don’t have access to UAT and Prod Servers. Only Network Admins have access.
parameters.xml
setparameters.xml
.bat file deployment
Dacpac: can be scripted or run in SQL Management Studio

17. parameters.Xml
<parameters> <parameter name= "Environment" description="Please provide an environment name" defaultValue="params default" tags=""> <parameterEntry kind="XmlFile" scope="web\.config$" " /> </parameter> </parameters>

18. Set Up Builds CI
/p:DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=Integration;CreatePackageOnPublish=true /t:build /t:publish /p:SqlPublishProfilePath=Integration.publish.xml
Deploy
/p:DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=QA;CreatePackageOnPublish=true /t:build /t:publish /p:SqlPublishProfilePath=QA.publish.xml