In every environment you need to automate the deployment process for SharePoint solutions – weather they’re sandboxed solutions, farm solutions or apps. But developers are lazy – and it’s so easy to click “Deploy” in VS that normally the deployment scripts are poorly tested. To get the developers to use and test the deployment scripts you have to integrate them in visual studio. If you use PowerShell scripts for your deployments and always place them in the same location this is pretty easy. You can add the scripts as “External Tools” and then add them to the context menu. To … Continue reading How to get SharePoint developers to automate deployments