TOC: Build Customization Guide Blog Posts and Reference Sites

This blog post pulls together all the blog posts that relate to the Visual Studio Build Customization Guide project. If you find anything we are not referencing and that should be on this page, then please contact us with the details.

Overview

Type Guidance and out-of-band solution
Codeplex Site https://rabcg.codeplex.com/
Codename African Tawny Eagle (ATE)
Blog Tag VSBCG
Other References Community TFS Build Extensions

Channel9 Videos

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Overview of the Visual Studio Build Customization Guidance

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Build and Deploy 1 - Build and Local Deploy

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Build and Deploy 2 - Automate Build and Deploy to Integration

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Build and Deploy 3 - Automate Integration Test

Camera Build and Deploy 4 - Manual Deploy to Quality Assurance

Kick-off and Status Posts

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New Rangers project, codename African Tawny Eagle (ATE)

2 Meet the core and feature area leads!
3 What do you think of the Epics?
4 Status Update: ALPHA Release under magnifying glass
5 ATE in final phase of review …THANK YOU to the phenomenal teams!
6 Build Customization Guidance … Build Report anyone?
7 ATE enters BETA phase
8 ATE 1.0 Ships!
9 Use(full|less) information on latest Visual Studio ALM Ranger projects
10 As always the latest guidance includes “visual” quick reference posters
11 BRDLite Build Reference Template – Hotfix 1 has been posted
12 Random Poll: Build Customization Guide vNext
13 Applying to formatting hotfixes to ALM Rangers guidance … and subtle caution for next wave of guidance!

Team Blogs Star

School Giulio Vian
School Mike Fourie
School William Bartholomew

Frequently Asked Questions & Discussions

1 Build Release Deploy (BRDLite) … what is it?
2 Why is BRDLite called *Lite?
3 Extending BRDLite and implementing the Build Report custom activity … phenomenal!
4 BRDLite 1.0 Hands-on Lab – Glitches which are not for the faint hearted :)