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Continuous Integration with

SharePoint 2010 and TFSChicago Visual Studio ALM User Group August 10th, 2011

George DurziPeter Walke


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About Us

George Durzi

@gdurzi

http://blogs.claritycon.com/georgedurzi [email protected]

Peter Walke

@pwalke

http://blogs.claritycon.com/peterwalke

[email protected]


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Agenda

The SharePoint 2010 development problem

Automating your WSP build process

Automating your deployment How far to take it

Useful tools

Tips for SharePoint 2010 WCM development

Q&A


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Introduction

Just completed a SharePoint 2010 WCM

project

Fixed bid / short duration How much time to spend on automating build

and deployment

The client doesnt care Find the right balance


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Solution Overview

Internet SharePoint Farm

ActiveDirectory

SQLSharePoint

Content

Deployment


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The SharePoint 2010 Development Problem

The tools are greatly improved

But they only get you so far

Developer productivity Need to be able to quickly recreate environment

Ability to deploy to different environments

Internal, e.g. development integration Client


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Automating WSP Build Process

Goal: Have most recent .WSPs in a well-know

location

1. Edit the build definition to create WSPs:

/p:IsPackaging = true


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Automating WSP Build Process

2. Postbuild Copy project output to the folder

Curr Build


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DEMO

TFS Build Solution


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Automating your Deployment

Create web application

Deploy WSPs

Create site collection Activate features

Create site structure

Populate lists

Configure Variations

Configure Content Deployment


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Is this Continuous Integration?

Not really

Only if you automate all these things

Do you really need continuous integration?

Tear down and recreate your environment on

every check in?

Too heavy-handed for SharePoint Deploy to your environment and tweak with

updates


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Leveraging PowerShell

PowerShell in SharePoint 2010 allows you to

easily automate entire site creation

Separate functionality into smaller scripts withparameters.

Create driver scripts to build as much or as

little of the site that you need


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Leveraging PowerShell

Example Scripts:

_DriverFull.c d

_DriverFull.ps1_DriverWebAppSiteCollections.ps1

CreateWebApplication.ps1

CreateSiteCollections.ps1

ActivateFeatures.ps1

CreatePageStubs.ps1


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DEMO

Automating Deployment with PowerShell


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How far to take it

How much to include in the TFS build itself

Some things are a PITA to automate

Budget / Time / Complexity Automate whats easy to automate

Dont be afraid of manual post-deployment

steps


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Wish List (Realistic)

Configure Variations

Automate running of helper scripts to create

site structure Configure navigation

Populate pages with content


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Wish List (Pie in the Sky)

Environment specific build

Environment conscious deploy scripts

Complete nightly build to target environment

Dont wait too long to deploy. It hurts, but its agood pain.

Web tests

Automate content deployment User will be looking at your content deployment

target


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Useful Tools

CKSDEV

ConfigStore

ACs STSADM commands

log4net

Zeta Resource Editor


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Useful Tools


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Tips

Visual Web Parts vs. CQWPs

Anonymous access

Work with real URLs

Data population

Content deployment

Properly structuring your WSPs

Lists PublishingContent

Assets


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