Ebook: The Build master: Microsoft's software configuration management best practices

Written by a top Microsoft consultant, this book will become the standard guide to the build process in the software engineering lifecycle. The build process is perhaps the least understood and least documented part of the software engineering process. One thing that Microsoft does very well is build software, and this book is written by one of the top Microsoft experts on the build process. It has a foreword by bestselling author Jeffrey Richter. 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.