Improving Your Build Process

Question

Or, actually establishing a build process when there isn\'t much of one in place to begin with.

Currently, that\'s pretty much the situation my group faces. We do web-a

Answer 1

I've only worked on a couple of .Net projects (I've done mostly Java) but one thing I would recommend is using a tool like NAnt. I have a real problem with coupling my build to the IDE, it ends up making it a real pain to set up build servers down the road since you have to go do a full VS install on any box that you want to build from in the future.

That being said, any automated build is better than no automated build.