Development process for a Dev, Test and production environment?
After watching many of the videos and reading the documentation it is still unclear to me how the dev and deployment process should work in a Dev/Test/Production environment.
In all the videos I've seen the demonstrator seems to be deploying the custom module or widget from the visual studio environment.
In my world there is no way my Visual Studio would ever have contact with the production or Q/A sites. What I need to understand is the process for developing a widget in my dev environment and then deploying just that widget to the Q/A and Prod environments.. Is there a document/example/video that illustrates this?
TIA
J
Hello John,
As far as I understand you have your project on a development server, test server and on a production server. After you make some changes in the project for example on the development server you would like to move these changes to the production server.
If so, you can use our Site Synchronization module in order to synchronize any type of content between different environments as it is described in this article from the Sitefinity documentation. You can also check this video on how to work with the Sitefinity SiteSync module.
If the Site Sync tool is not an option for you, the best way to move the changes from the development to the production server is to copy the project and the database from the development to the production server and then fix the connection string to point to the database on the production server.