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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Defining a Build | |
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| The Two Types of Builds: Developers and Project | |
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| Building from the Inside Out | |
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| More Important Build Definitions | |
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| How Your Product Should Flow | |
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| Microsoft Solution Framework | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Source Tree Configuration for Multiple Sites and Parallel (Multi-Version) Development Work | |
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| Definitions | |
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| How This Process Works: An Example Using VSS | |
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| Hatteras: A Look Into the Future of SCC at Microsoft | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Daily, Not Nightly, Builds | |
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| The Importance of a Successful Daily Build | |
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| What Are You Building Every Day? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| The Build Lab and Personnel | |
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| The Need for a Build Lab | |
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| Build Lab Rules | |
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| Hardware Configuration | |
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| Build Personnel | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Build Tools and Technologies | |
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| First, Every Build Needs a Script | |
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| Binary Generating Tools-Also Referred to Loosely as "Build Tools" | |
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| "You Provide the Nose; We Provide the Grindstone" | |
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| In Steps the 800-Pound Gorilla! | |
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| XML Is the Here, the Now, and the Future | |
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| What Build Tool Should You Be Using and When? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| SNAP Builds-aka Integration Builds | |
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| What Is a SNAP Build? | |
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| When to Use SNAP Builds | |
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| How SNAP Works | |
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| Sample Machine Configuration | |
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| Operations Staff | |
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| Managing Throughput | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| The Build Environment | |
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| Setting Up the Environment | |
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| Setting Up a Developer or Tester Machine | |
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| A Makefile Example That Explains How This Works | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Versioning | |
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| Why Worry About Versioning? | |
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| File Versioning | |
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| Build Number | |
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| Source Code Control Trees | |
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| Should There Be Other Fields in the File Version Number? | |
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| DLL or Executable Versions for .NET (Assembly Versions) | |
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| How Versioning Affects Setup | |
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| Even Installing Correctly Does Not Always Work | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Build Security | |
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| Physical Security for the Build, Source, and Release Lab | |
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| Tracking Source Changes (All Check-Ins)-The Build Process | |
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| Binary/Release Bits Assurance | |
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| IT Infrastructure | |
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| Want More Security? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Building Managed Code | |
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| The Official Definition of Managed Code | |
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| What Is the CLR, and How Does It Relate to Managed Code? | |
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| Managed Execution Process | |
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| The Definition of Assemblies As It Pertains to the .NET Framework | |
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| Delay Signing and When to Use It | |
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| One Solution or Many Solution Files? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| International Builds | |
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| Important Concepts and Definitions | |
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| Internationally Ignorant Code | |
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| Locale-Dependent Source | |
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| Single Worldwide Source | |
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| Single Worldwide Binary | |
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| USE Unicode | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Build Verification Tests and Smoke Tests | |
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| Smoke Test | |
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| Build Verification Tests | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Building Setup | |
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| The Basic Definitions | |
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| Setup Is Not a Testing Tool | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Ship It! | |
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| Software Release at Microsoft | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Customer Service and Support | |
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| Goals of Support | |
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| How Support Works and Communicates with the Product Teams | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Managing Hotfixes and Service Packs | |
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| Introduction to "Release Management with VSS" | |
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| Release Management: General Scenarios | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| 7 Suggestions to Change Your Corporate or Group Culture | |
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| What Is Corporate Culture? | |
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| It Starts at the Top | |
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| When All Else Fails | |
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| Don't Go Gipper | |
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| NASA Columbia and Challenger Disasters: When Management Pulls Rank and There Is a Big Disconnect Between the Manager's View and the Engineer's View | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Future Build Tools from Microsoft | |
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| MSBuild | |
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| Visual Studio Team System | |
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| Visual Studio Team Build | |
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| The Microsoft Shell (MSH, or Monad) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Embedded Builds | |
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| Nuts and Bolts of the CE Build System | |
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| Extreme Programming | |
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| Extreme Programming Fundamentals | |
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| Test-Driven Development and Refactoring | |
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| An Extreme Programming Scenario | |
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| Microsoft Case Study | |
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| References and Further Reading | |
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| Testing Guide | |
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| Test Guide: A Compilation from the Developer Division at Microsoft | |
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| Debug Symbols | |
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| The Windows Scenario That You May Run into with Your Applications | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Index | |