Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) – Part 3 – Settings and Builds

I originally published this post on the Igloo blog.

In this blog post we run through some of the settings for Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) and what they do.

A key feature to TDS is the ability to set up automated builds with continuous integration, making development and deployment more streamlined than the regular development process. Part of setting up your project for TDS is setting it up to build properly so that your Sitecore changes are automatically pushed to your target instance (dev, QA, staging or live server).

Throughout our experience with TDS, we ran into many issues with our settings and configurations. After lots of reading, testing, and asking a lot of questions to Hedgehog’s Customer Support (massive shout-out to Charlie for his help….you’re a legend!) , we finally have our builds automatically deploying to our continuous integration server.

Below is what we have found. If you have any questions, tips, or improvements on what is listed here, please post comments below. We’d love to hear how others are using it, and further our understanding of what can be done with this product.

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Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) – Part 2 – Advanced Usage

I originally published this post on the Igloo blog.

In this blog post we run through how we attack some of the issues we’ve had with the advanced usage of Team Development for Sitecore (TDS).

In Part 1 we talked about what TDS does, how to use it, and item ownership and deployment strategy. We will now go deeper to talk about the more complicated issues with deployment.

If you have any questions, tips, or improvements on what is listed here, please post comments below. We’d love to hear how others are using it, and further our understanding of what can be done with this product.

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Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) – Part 1 – General Usage

I originally published this post on the Igloo blog.

In this blog post we take you through some of the basic concepts of Team Development for Sitecore (TDS), and it’s general usage.

This is an overview of how the developers at Igloo Digital are currently using TDS. We are still very new to it, and have much more to learn. If you have any questions, tips, or improvements on what is listed here, please post comments below. We’d love to hear how others are using it, and further our understanding of what can be done with this product.

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