Say what you will about Microsoft, they know how to successfully build and
release software. Vince Maraia has been a key member of the build teams for
many of their major software releases over the last fifteen years. In this book he
distills the wisdom he has learned about building software, while also setting it
into the context of related steps, including configuration management and
deployment. While he uses Microsoft tools and case studies from within
Microsoft, the book is as tool-agnostic as possible, to make the ideas applicable
to the broadest possible range of readers. The book is written so that each
chapter builds upon the previous one, following the standard development
schedule; however, each chapter can also stand alone as a reference to that
particular piece of the process. Microsoft has been so successful at developing
build procedures that work that they will be incorporating many of them in the
forthcoming suite of products called Visual Studio 2005 Team System, so this
book is being released at a very opportune time.
release software. Vince Maraia has been a key member of the build teams for
many of their major software releases over the last fifteen years. In this book he
distills the wisdom he has learned about building software, while also setting it
into the context of related steps, including configuration management and
deployment. While he uses Microsoft tools and case studies from within
Microsoft, the book is as tool-agnostic as possible, to make the ideas applicable
to the broadest possible range of readers. The book is written so that each
chapter builds upon the previous one, following the standard development
schedule; however, each chapter can also stand alone as a reference to that
particular piece of the process. Microsoft has been so successful at developing
build procedures that work that they will be incorporating many of them in the
forthcoming suite of products called Visual Studio 2005 Team System, so this
book is being released at a very opportune time.