TDS Useful Feature
For those who always would need to publish after deploy using your favorite tool out there, TFS/Team City etc., There is a out of box feature that TDS offers to publish all items included in the project. This means you dont have to login and publish post deployment which is usually the case.
I tested this out and it actually works pretty awesome.
Unfortunately, there is lack of clear instructions on TDS site for this option, so I thought it is worth a blog post to provide exact steps you need to do to make this work.
1. Go to Deploy tab of your TDS project, You should see the below options
2. Check box as shown on the screenshot above and the most important one is step 3
3. Ensure you have entered the string(name) of the publishing target you wish to push to post deployment. It can have more than one as you might have realized. (Just comma separate them)
It is important to know what is the publishing target, it is not the database name as some of you might think, it is actually the name of the item(publishing target) that points to the database you wish to publish to.
Default publishing target that comes out of the box from sitecore is called "Internet". You can add your own or find existing one through navigating to
Yoursitedomain.com/sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx and searching for target or simply go to the below section
System -> Publishing targets -> Screenshot below
Helpful read -
http://hedgehogdevelopment.github.io/tds/chapter4.html
