Hi all,

I am using TFS 2008 and Visual Studio and my boss has instructed me to implement Build Automation for Development and Release builds for a web Project.

I am a total newbie in Build Automation.

There are multiple developers working on the project on different machines using Visual Studio 2008 team System. Source is already being maintained on TFS 2008. SQL Server in Use is SQL Server 2000 and hosted IIS is IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 x64.

I have searched over the net and found Continuous Integration and Nightly Builds as two important Build Automation techniques.

I was just wondering of any disadvantages associated with both the methodologies (CI and Nightly Builds).

If someone could guide me to a working tutorial that explains both techniques the it would be quite helpful.

Please also tell the requirements of IIS, SQL Server and any other that might be pre-requisite to implement build automation.

Also i would like to know whether there are other techniques that are better then CI?

Replies and discussion much appreciated.

Thanks