Hedgehog Development

Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) is a plug-in for Visual Studio which allows you to serialize and deserialize Sitecore items for your project directly from within Visual Studio. The items can then be added to any Visual Studio compliant source control system as the items exist in a custom Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) project as text files.

No more packaging! TDS also allows synchronizing the items in your project with your Sitecore server. You can select which items to sync and which ones to leave alone. There are multiple synchronization options to determine how TDS should handle such cases as when an item exists in the project but not in Sitecore or when an item exists in Sitecore but not in the project.

No more packages to create and deploy! TDS and Visual Studio work together to deploy all your changes with one click. Imagine starting Visual Studio, getting the latest code from your Source Code Control System, and with one-click deploying the latest changes to your server, and instantly having your development or test environments be in sync with everyone else’s. It is that easy with TDS.

Putting all of your Sitecore items into a source code control system gives you all the power and security that a source code control system brings to your development environment. Instead of packaging up your project and checking the package into source control, you can manage each individual item in your Sitecore project separately.

• No more packaging
• Complete accountability and audit trail for all changes to all Sitecore items and .NET code in a project
• Items are stored as text files in a custom TDS project making them easy for source control to merge.
• Facilitates synchronization with your Sitecore servers • Select which items you want to synchronize and which you do not
• Provides a visual representation of the relationships between your templates (think Visual Studio Class Designer)
• Changes from multiple developers don’t step on each other
• Complete audit trail for all changes
• Easily compare versions of code and items
• Single repository for all your source code means easy backups, keeping your work safe
• Branching and other advanced source code management techniques can be leveraged

Team Development for Sitecore changes the way individuals and teams develop Sitecore projects, work with each other, and with source code. To learn more about how TDS can help your team work together more effectively, visit us at www.hhogdev.com.