Questions

1. Why is it important to use a build server to build deployment packages?
2. How can settings be set at publish time for web packages?
3. Why is it not a good idea to put certain connection strings and API keys in configs and transforms source control?
4. What issues do we have with config transforms in cloud services?
5. Why could it be helpful to deploy a website to the filesystem or publish a cloud service package locally?
6. What problem may we face while trying to build projects rather than solutions on the Visual Studio Online Team Foundation build server?
7. What extra step do we need to perform when building cloud service packages on the build server?
8. When we run a deploy.cmd script, what is the difference between the /T and /Y arguments?
9. What approach should we take to set logging levels when deploying a new system?