XL Deploy and Microsoft development process improvement tools are long date friends. XL Deploy started supporting TFS since the 2010 version. Initially, the integration came in form of custom build activities for XAML templates. With TFS 2015, Microsoft introduced a simpler task and script-driven cross-platform build system and XL Deploy followed up with an extension […]
Automating BI projects, based on Microsoft tooling, was always a bit painful. Personally, all of the things shipped with SSDT seemed a bit unloved from a Microsoft side. What I would like to show you in this post is how I managed to automate the build and deployment of my Integration Services Projects (.dtproj type). […]
Introduction Circa a year ago I showed you how to use XebiaLabs Team Foundation Server 2015 XL Deploy plugin to create, import and deploy, XL Deploy Deployment Archives, on TFS and VSTS. With a new version of the plugin, that is now renamed into VSTS extension for XL Deploy, XebiaLabs delivers two more build/release tasks. […]