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Scott, Thanks, I'm waiting for MVC first preview.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

I might just have missed it so far, but the number one feature I would like to see in web deployment projects is an option "Publish..." that allows me to specify a target (i.e. my remote web server) and then takes the output of the web deployment project and copies it over there.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the great articles over the couples of years.

When do you guys plan to release MVC framework ?

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Scott,

Is there a reason that the web deployment project stuff wasn't integrated into VS2008 the way the WebApp project was?

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# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Scott.

Thanks.

I am waiting for MVC Framework release. Please do let us know when you are planning for its first release.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Hi ScottGu,

You said:

"We are also working on a web publishing framework for IIS (it will work with both IIS6 and IIS7) that we'll ship early next year.  It handles deploying applications remotely (either to a single machine or across a webfarm) and supports versioning.  You could use this either standalone to deploy applications and/or kick it off at the end of a web deployment build."

Kewl. just a few questions about this.

1) If our servers are PHYSICALLY remote, will we be able to 'publish' to these servers over the net? (ie. use IP address instead of \\<server name>).

2) If so, can we configure the remote port ourselfs (just to obfuscate the publish port a bit more, to protect us from hack attempts).

3) Lastly, if this remote publish by IP address (see question #1 about this), then i'm assuming multiple IP's can be handled, for the web farm scenario suggested by you.

Lastly - i strongly think this new web deployment scenario you are looking to get released "early next year" will be one of the biggest gain benefits for us developers/release managers in eons with regards to the VS product suit. TFS was the last _huge_ benefit in recent years (IMO), followed by the up'n'coming MVC + Linq imo .. and now this. (remember, i'm talking about my thoughts on the _biggest_ benefit, with regards to what the upgrade had previously... if it had anything)

If only the (msbuild) tasks were a hell of a lot more easier to do, via some UI screens instead of hacking the xml file .. deployments will be a simple yet massive strong point to the VS product suit.

Great stuff mate! Looking forward to some more info.

PK - from Melbourne, Australia.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

>>>> You could use this either standalone to deploy applications and/or kick it off at the end of a web deployment build.

Would that address my criticism on the webdevtools blog (blogs.msdn.com/.../web-deployment-projects-wdp-for-visual-studio-2008-december-2007-ctp-released.aspx)?

There my comment is that Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008 is constrained more than WDP for VS 2005, in that it is prevented from running standalone.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

>>>> Your scenario of wanting to run it on an express installation is a good one though - i will forward it to the team to see if they can enable.

Thanks Scott. The team will also need to adjust the wording of the licence agreement (as per my second comment on that blog), in order to make the standalone/express installation legitimate.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Scott,

Great to know you are working over the weekend! Impressed how many comments you already have! Again, thanks so much for the info. When can we expect the Silverlight 2.0 features included on that release?

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What is the goal of .NET Framework,please tell us who care .NET Framework  ?

Some words from Don Box Blog:

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# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Excellent, thanks for the pointers! And I am VERY much looking forward to the deployment stuff. Just one question up front: Will it also integrate with DB deployment? I.e. if I have a DB project with VS Team DB (or whatever the name is), can I then just say deploy, and it will push any updates to the DB, and then also adjust the connection strings before so they are pointing to the right DB on the server?

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Hi Scott

I think I've found a bug in WDP for VS2008. I get the following error when trying to replace config sections

web.config(1): error WDP00002: missing section appSettings.

I've made sure that the appSettings section do exist in the web.config file. I tried the same config replacements in WDP for VS2005 where it works ok.

TIA

Henrik

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

I wonder if these updates can/will fix this super annoying problem I have been having with VS2008's "publish" feature

I seriously have a hard time believing i am the only person on the planet with this issue:

forums.asp.net/.../1151162.aspx

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Hi all.

You can read this post in spanish here:

thinkingindotnet.wordpress.com/.../releases-de-aspnet-ajax-control-toolkit-y-de-web-deployment-project-para-vs-2008

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Excellent work, thanks

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# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

There are way too many ASP.NET controls and products out there – especially as indicated by your blogpost.

However, the controls.add mechanism is very flexible (because it doesn’t do anything), but also to some extent gives you almost too much freedom.

It would be nice if all subsequent controls were to fit in a mould that makes it easy to plug them into my page, without having to learn all the finickiness of each control. Right now, I have to learn the intricacies of every control to really be able to use it.

If there was a “control provider model”, so I could learn the model and plug and play whatever I wanted – that would be so neat.

Something on the lines of webparts, but more flexible, cleaner HTML and optional runtime configurability.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Hi Scott,

We are starting a new project here in BBC Worldwide (UK) using MVC. I've managed to partly get the guys excited to use your MVC rather than our own, to be an early adopter.

If it matters to you, I'm sure an encouraging/support email from you helps so much to get the team excited here.

Thanks

Paymon

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Hello scott

I like i said on previous post i would check the web deployment project, see if it works with the web application project in 2008.

Now i have the latest build of both project but still the web deployment project Still doesnt work with the web application project. Have a look at my blog post(undocnet.blogspot.com/.../web-application-project-2008-still-not.html) with build output reports and exaple projects to demonstrate that the web application project in visual studio 2008 does not work with the web deployment project december ctp. to get it to work you have to change the page and controls attribute codebehind to codefile and change the build action of ALL code behind files (aspx.cs and aspx.design.cs) to none then only then you get the 4 different build output types to work.

hope this is enought information so you can pass to the correct team so it they can have a look at it.

regards

Dancoe

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

"We are also working on a web publishing framework for IIS (it will work with both IIS6 and IIS7) that we'll ship early next year."

First I've heard of this. I just Googled, er LiveSearched, and I couldn't find any other blog posts. Does this project have a codename or can you point to some other blog posts about it? Sounds cool and desperately needed.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Hi Henrik,

   There is a similar issue reported on blogs.msdn.com/.../web-deployment-projects-wdp-for-visual-studio-2008-december-2007-ctp-released.aspx we will be investigating this on Monday.. Thanks so much for providing this feedback, it really will help us make WDP VS 2008 better...

-Vishal

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Stephen,

       In regards to :

>>>>>> I wonder if these updates can/will fix this super annoying problem I have been having with VS2008's "publish" feature

      Is there anyway by which you can send the site with "Publish" problem in it to me as I am unable to reproduce, but want to take it to the team to be looked at...  My alias is vijoshi at Microsoft...

Thanks

-Vishal

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

thanks for the post was petty useful.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

What is the recommended way to develop an ajax control extender?

We have two option: the abstract ExtenderControl base class, or using the AjaxControlToolkit as a base. The first one is simple and easy, the last one seems too complex.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

I think this web deployment addin should be installed at standard rather than an addition.

I'm working in VS2005 with .NET20 recently I finished with first phase delivery of my project I couldn't believe that you get millions of .dlls for all pages.

In order for code checking, versioning baselining what is going into live and updating in future versions I wanted to have fixednames plus fewer number of dlls (manageable)

For more information about how you want your dlls to be named and combined

Seach for aspnet_merge.exe You would need to download webdeploymentproject

Following is the link I used but is currently not working.

msdn2.microsoft.com/.../aa479044.aspx

(Search google for aspnet_merge.exe have a look at the cached version)

Following is the wrapper for the above aspnet_merge.exe in VS2005 project type.

For more information about web deployment project using VS2005

msdn2.microsoft.com/.../aa479568.aspx

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Hi Scott,

If the team is reluctant to include aspnet_merge.exe in the final ‘Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects’ then perhaps an alternative download could be provided. I’m thinking of a repackaged download that supports my express/standalone scenario. Let’s say it’s called ‘Web Deployment Projects Standalone’. Web Deployment Projects Standalone would be similar to Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects, but with the following differences:

- Includes aspnet_merge.exe.

- Does not include any of the UI that is required for integrating within Visual Studio.

- Includes a licence agreement that allows it to be used on any validly licensed Windows PC (with only .NET Framework 2.0 as a pre-requisite).

- Ideally includes some guidance on using MSBuild, to deploy a web site, if that is possible in the standalone scenario.

- Ideally includes some guidance on using aspnet_compiler.exe and aspnet_merge.exe directly from the command line interface, to deploy a web site.

Regards

Poor Man

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Hi Scott,

I just did the WDP update and would like to share my experience :

1) The update report 1 error :

Filename Status Errors Warnings

Recytyre.Extranet.Domain.Mapping\Recytyre.Extranet.Domain.Mapping.ddsproj  1 0

Conversion Issues - Recytyre.Extranet.Domain.Mapping\Recytyre.Extranet.Domain.Mapping.ddsproj:

There was an error while upgrading: System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (2, 2). ---> System.InvalidOperationException: <Project xmlns='schemas.microsoft.com/.../2003'> was not expected. at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderDataDomainSchemaProjectFile.Read11_GenomeProject() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader, String encodingStyle, XmlDeserializationEvents events) at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader, String encodingStyle) at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(Stream stream) at TechTalk.Genome.VisualStudio.GenomePackage.DataDomainSchemaProject.ProjectFile.DataDomainSchemaProjectFile.Load(String fileName, String projectName) at TechTalk.Genome.VisualStudio.GenomePackage.V2.DataDomainSchemaProject.DdscProjectConverter10to20.Convert() at TechTalk.Genome.VisualStudio.GenomePackage.V2.DataDomainSchemaProject.DataDomainSchemaProjectFactory.UpgradeProject(String bstrFileName, UInt32 fUpgradeFlag, String bstrCopyLocation, String& pbstrUpgradedFullyQualifiedFileName, IVsUpgradeLogger pLogger, Int32& pUpgradeRequired, Guid& pguidNewProjectFactory)

It seems that a genome project (ORMapper) gave some trouble as it showed up unavailable after the upgrade. A simpel restart of VS2008 solved this.

2) I develop in a team where VS2005 & VS2008 is used so we have 2 solution files : project2005.sln & project2008.sln.

After the upgrade the project won't compile if its opened in VS2005. I suppose this is expected behaviour but still someting to wacht out for.

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Hey Now Scott,

Video Tutorials are a stellar way to learn.

Thx 4 the info,

Catto

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# re: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Hello Scott

If u can help me out please.

How to reference the AjaxControlKit in my empty web project i need all steps for vs 2008 express

The main problem is i want the AjaxControlKit tools in my toolbox tab as well as AjaxControlKit Ext. as i have for GaiaAjax Widgets so that i can easly drag and drop the AjaxControlKit controls in my ASPX page

please its important

Regards bhupendra

bhupendra@infobase.in

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Hi Scott

I'm having a problem using the WDP with AJAXControlToolkit where the "AJAXToolkit is not defined" error crops up. This does not happen if I just copy the project directly to the server without using WDP. The scriptresource.axd and webresource.axd links work and display javascript if I go to them directly, but this one does not:

/default.aspx?_TSM_HiddenField_=ctl00_cphLeft_ScriptManager1_HiddenField&amp;_TSM_CombinedScripts_=%3b%3bAjaxControlToolkit%2c+Version%3d1.0.11119.20010%2c+Culture%3dneutral%2c+PublicKeyToken%3d28f01b0e84b6d53e%3aen%3af115bb7c-9ed9-4839-b013-8ca60f25e300%3a1df13a87%3a2d3f89a8

It's a blank page that IE and Firefox want to download to my desktop and Safari refuses to do anything with. Do I need to add something to my webdeploy build project?

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