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Getting Started With Release Management for Visual Studio 2013

by David Batten

This course introduces Microsoft's latest ALM tool, Release Management for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.

What you'll learn

This is an introductory course designed to help you get up and running with Release Management. We'll start with basic installation and setup, then move on to configuration of the different building blocks that make Release Management tick. Then we'll walk through examples of deploying an ASP.NET web application, a Windows Service application, and a SQL Server database. These examples will include methods of manual deployment, as well as automated deployment. By the end of the course, you will be able to use Release Management for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 to enable consistent, rapid, and automated deployments in your own work environments.

About the author

David Batten is a software craftsman at Pluralsight, where he specializes in web development, primarily with ASP.NET MVC. He also focuses on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) using various tools and platforms. He has worked on agile development teams for several years, implementing both Scrum and Kanban methodologies. David enjoys speaking at local user group and code camp events, on topics ranging from ALM to software development practices. His spare time is spent being a father, becoming ... more

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