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Today we are announcing the availability of FREE HOSTING accounts for web developers to try out the new feature sets of Visual Studio 2010 Beta1, ASP.NET 4 Beta1 and Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MsDeploy) RC1… VS 2010 has great set of features on deploying web applications seamlessly… One of the key features is the ability to publish your web application from VS 2010 to a remote hosted web server along with its dependencies like SQL Server database using “Web 1-Click Publish”… VS 2010 integrates Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MsDeploy.exe) to provide fast, reliable and cohesive way of deploying web application… Learn more about Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Features … Apart from the web deployment feature set there are...
We have earlier discussed about Web Deployment and Web Packaging quite a bit, today I wanted to dive into web.config transformation. If you would like to check out the other topics please read through the earlier blog posts below: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package using VS 2010 Web Packaging: Creating web packages using MSBuild How does Web Deployment with VS 10 & MSDeploy Work? Installing Web Packages using Command Line Usually web applications go through a chain of server deployments before being finally being deployed to production environment. Some of these environments can be Developer box (Debug), QA Server, Staging/Pre-Production, Production (Release). While transitioning between these environments...
Today I want to advance our discussions around Web Deployment in Visual Studio 10… To catch up on the previous discussions in this series check out: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package using VS 2010 Web Packaging: Creating web packages using MSBuild How does Web Deployment with VS 10 & MSDeploy Work? In this post I will focus on installing the MSDeploy based Web Packages to IIS. You can actually install/deploy web packages using multiple different avenues listed below: Using IIS Manager UI Using command file created by Visual Studio 10 Using command line using MSDeploy.exe Using Power Shell support provided by MS Deploy Using managed APIs provided by MS Deploy VS 10 will create Web...
Web Deployment has taken a huge stride in Visual Studio 2010. I have started a blog series where I have written about web deployment, you can read more about them below: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package using VS 2010 Web Packaging: Creating web packages using MSBuild In VS 10 we use MSDeploy behind the scenes to deploy your entire web application along with all of its dependencies like IIS Settings, DB, web content etc to any destination server. MSDeploy is a new technology specially designed to serve the purpose of deploying web applications seamlessly across IIS Servers. My hope is to give you a CONCEPTUAL high level overview to understand how web deployment with VS10 & MSDeploy...
This post is next in the series of VS 2010 articles that we have been putting together to dive into the Web Deployment improvements with VS 2010 and IIS. I would recommend reading the the preceding posts to get an overview of all the scenarios supported: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package using VS 2010 In this post I will cover web package creation using MSBuild command line. Many medium to large sized teams plan on automating their build process for various good reasons like predictability for QA team, time saving as compared to on-demand manual build, early bug detection with Build Verification Tests (BVTs), knowing the current state of project integration, etc… Many argue that setting up...
In the earlier post I highlighted various investments that we are making in Visual Studio 2010 and IIS to make Web Deployment easier. You can read that post below: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Deploying a web project with all its correct dependencies is not a trivial task. Some of the assets which need to be considered during deployment are: Web Content (.aspx, .ascx, images, xml files, PDBs, Binaries etc) IIS Settings (Directory browsing, Error pages, Default Documents etc) Databases that the web project uses GAC Assemblies and COM components which the web project depends upon Registry Settings that may be used within the web project Security Certificates App Pools In an enterprise environment a web application with all of its...
Today, deploying a web application is not as easy as it should be. Whether you are deploying your web to a shared hosting environment and paying monthly to maintain it OR whether you have a web server/s managed by your enterprise, there are a lot of manual steps involved in getting your application from point A to point B. If you are deploying your web application to a shared hoster then today you have to use technologies like FTP which take a long time to get your web content to the hosted server. After deploying your content you have to manually go to hoster control panel and install your database by running sql scripts and configure various IIS settings like marking a folder as an application to isolate it from the rest of the application...
At PDC 2008 in LA and TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona we announced key new features for Visual Studio 2010 for Web Developers... Apart from our focus on MVC, Dynamic Data, Silverlight and other key ASP.NET runtime functionality, this was the first time we announced the key investments pillars for Web Developers in VS 2010 ... Over the next year or so we will be writing in details about these new features, but to start off I thought it would be great to share various videos which are available to view online today ... Visual Studio 2010 - Web Development Overview In this talk we provided the glimpse of the major investment areas in VS 2010. The talk is divided into following key areas Design View - Improved CSS 2...
Web Deployment Projects (WDP) allows you to pre-compile your web into binaries and further also allows you to merge the assemblies produced in the format that you like. In my earlier posts I had talked about various WDP features and the latest release of WDP for VS 2008. You can read more about this here By default in the WDP output you will find project files (.csproj/.vbproj), user files (.user), .PDB, obj folders and other artifacts which are not required for web to run. It is pretty easy to get rid of these files automatically by following these simple steps: Step 1 - Open WDP project file for editing Open WDP project file by right clicking on the WDP project and clicking "Open Project File" Step 2 - Exclude Read...
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