Continuous Integration using Visual Studio

Continuous Integration using Visual Studio Online
Gaurav Srivastava | November 18, 2015
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Continuous Integration is a software development practice to integrate developer codes into a large code base frequently, usually several times a day. Continuous Integration helps to verify automated build with basic test scenarios and Code analysis.

In this article, Git has been used for version control and code repository, while Visual Studio Online (VSO) for Continuous Integration.

Git Installation

Open the command prompt (run as admin)
Install chocolatey machine package manager.
Open the PowerShell editor(run as admin)
Install Posh-Git with chocolatey

PS C:\> cinst poshgit

Once installed, close the Powershell editor, and reopen it.
To verify type “git” and enter.

Setup VSO

Create a Microsoft account, if you don't have one.
Sign in to Visual Studio Online with your Microsoft account (for example, @outlook.com or @hotmail.com).
Click on New link to create a new team project
It will pop up with ‘new team project’ page
Add Project name and Description
Select Process template
Select Git as Version control
Click on Create project button
It will create new project under DefaultCollection
Click on Administer account settings
Click on Agent Pool
Add your live account in the Agent Pool Administrators

Add Visual Studio Project in Git & VSO

Created Hello World Web, test and database projects in Visual Studio
Open powershell editor
Go to local project folder location
Type git init command to created git repository

>git init
Add user name and email in the git config

>git config –global user.name “Gaurav Srivastava”

>git config –global user.email “Microsoft email”
Add remote VSO url

>git remote add origin “VSO project url”
Add all the project files into git

>git add *.*
Use commit to add files from staging to local repository

>git commit –m <message>
Use push to add files from local repository to VSO repository

>git push –all
It will ask for VSO credential and password
Open the VSO project url
Click on Code tab
Now your code is available under your team project and you can see all 3 (web, test and database) projects.

Continuous Integration using Visual Studio Online

In this section, we will do Continuous Integration with Visual Studio Online.

Sign in to VSO with your Microsoft account.
Click on BUILD tab
Click on ‘+’ action to create new build definition
Select Visual Studio in the Build template and click on OK button.
New build definition template will open
Select Continuous Integration option from Triggers
Select Default queue as Hosted
Click on Save button
Enter build definition name and click OK.
Now ‘New Build’ is available under Build definitions
Open Visual Studio TFS and connect to DemoVSO project
Select Hello World solution
Add your change in the files
Save it
Build the solution
Right click on solution and select Commit
It will ask to publish your code first.
To publish, pass the VSO project url.
Enter the comment in message box and select Commit and Push option. It will commit and push your changes to VSO.
Navigate to VSO under Build tab
Select New build under build definition
Once you build is successfully completed, It will be visible under the completed section
Click on Build
It will give you build details view
Click on Artifacts to get the build drop location. You can download/ Explore the build