Case study · US Enterprise
Forty solutions became one pipeline.
A US manufacturing enterprise ran its factory software as about forty hand-built Visual Studio solutions, deployed by copying files to servers. We consolidated the estate and gave it real pipelines, signed installers, and gated database deploys.
70
Projects, one solution
1,787
Source files
1,474
Database objects
18
Data layers
Station 01 · The estate
Built by hand, shipped by copy.
About forty separate Visual Studio solutions, one per factory tool, each built by hand and copied to servers. Versions drifted, hotfixes overwrote work, and nobody could say which build was actually running on which machine.
Station 02 · The consolidation
One solution to build them all.
Seventy projects now live in one master solution with shared build rules, one output folder and vendor libraries resolved in one place. Nothing was rewritten. The estate was made buildable, which is what unlocked everything after.
Station 03 · The pipeline
Push, and the factory suite ships.
Azure DevOps regenerates the data layers, builds all seventy projects, signs every binary and the installer with the company certificate, packages an MSI and tags the release. What was a manual ritual happens on every push.
Station 04 · The database
Schema changes with a paper trail.
Fourteen hundred database objects build into a dacpac. Every change produces a read-only deploy plan first, and publishing to an environment is gated behind an approval, with data-loss protection on.
Station 05 · Delivered
Their team runs it now.
The pipelines, the installer and the branching model were handed over with documentation and engineering training. The client's own team operates the system today. Delivered, in the fullest sense.
System map · verified
The architecture, on paper.
Engineers
Engineer workstation
git push · schema changes
Pipelines
App pipeline
build · sign · MSI
DB pipeline
dacpac · deploy plan
Targets
Artifact feed
signed MSI · tagged
SQL Server
approval-gated publish
Outside
DigiCert
timestamping
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