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Something that I quickly realized and definitely love from my profession (I’m a System Engineer) is how easy and cheap is for us to create compared to other disciplines. I’m not talking about big commercial systems, if you want to build the next GitHub you won’t probably go far without some level of real money investment. I’m talking about create something, just because you are learning, trying a technology or building something to address a specific problem. At the very basics you only need a computer, the tools, time and focus. ...

In this post I will describe different parts of a .NET full framework solution. This is the result of years reviewing and incorporating ideas from other people and adding my own experience and criteria. The solution was part of an exercise proposed in a technical interview. This is not intended to be an example from the code perspective itself. The solution proposed at that time constraint exercise was very basic (and is almost untouched). It just intend to be an example of a potential structure, process and use of tools. ...

Diablo 2 is by far the game that I most played in my life. I first played it in 2002 and since then (sometimes with years of difference) I played uncountable hours. Initially with a sorceress then paladin, assassin and necromancer. I played with my wife (long time ago), all night with friends through Lan (also long time ago), over the internet in battle.net and finished it several times through the years in normal and nightmare difficulty solo games. Different characters, sometimes with the same class. But for some reason I have never played enough with one character to finish the game in hell difficulty. ...

This is a continuation of my previous post Continuous Delivery ASP .NET MVC Application I will explain step by step how to put in place the Continuous Delivery process explained in my previous post in a Continuous Integration & Delivery tool. In this case Microsoft Team Foundation Server. You can download or clone the code of the project included in the examples from GitHub. Create a build plan Our first step is to create a Build Plan. This plan is responsible to generate the artifacts, a deployable version of our application. ...

In this post I will explain the steps I follow to put in place a Continuous Delivery process for a .NET MVC Application. The proposed solution is based on WebDeploy and parameter files to generate one deployment package and deploy it to N environments. Something similar to the following picture. Image credits: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/deployment-projects-338363438.html The same process could be applied to WebForms and WebApi applications. Update: There is a second part of this post in which I explain how to orchestrate this process in MS Team Foundation Server ...