Deployment continues to get easier, but there's still a few gotchas here and there. Check out these choice articles for you deployment questions.
- Web Deployment Projects - Fritz Onion's most excellent article on Web Deployment Projects. He goes into great detail and also explains the new pluggable configuration files feature.
- MSDN on ASP.NET Deployment - Includes walkthroughs on how to deploy and ASP.NET application via XCOPY.
- Compilation and Deployment in ASP.NET 2.0 - Good article by Rick Strahl explaining the Web Site model.
- Video: Configuring, Building and Deploying a Web Site - In this lesson, you will see what is required to make your ASP.NET applications available to everyone.
- Microsoft Web Deployment Tool Technical Preview 1: The IIS team recently posted the first preview of a new Microsoft Web Deployment tool. This tool works with both IIS6 and IIS7 and enables automated deployment, synchronization, and migrating of applications on web servers. If you are looking for a great way to automate the deployment of your ASP.NET applications then this tool is definitely one to check out. To learn more, read the walkthroughs at the bottom of this page (in particular the "Introduction to MS Deploy" one). This tool is awesome and should make automated deployment much easier.
- Visual Studio 2008 Web deployment project. version supports all the features of VS 2005 and also add support for Easily migrating Visual studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects to Visual studio 2008 Web Deployment Project. It also supports the functionality to replace output only if the build for web deployment succeed and supports both IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0
- Before Visual studio 2008 Microsoft released Visual studio 2005 web deployment projects. The detail of the Visual Studio 2005 Web deployment projects can be found here.
Enjoy!
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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 11:35 PM
by dotservant
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Great list of articles, does help me a lot in my current project. Thanks a lot.
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Thu, Mar 6, 2008 6:16 AM
by vorlosha
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It would be great if someone would explain issues of deployment not just on Web site. But into IIS.
And not just Windows Vista IIS (which is comprehesive without explanation) but to Windows Server 2005 IIS.
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008 6:04 AM
by IsrarAli
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well i can also search so many articles
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Sat, Oct 18, 2008 8:36 AM
by anonymouswrites
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Thanks for the help
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Tue, Jun 2, 2009 11:14 AM
by gsudhesh
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thanks a lot
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Sun, Aug 14, 2011 11:35 AM
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Testing of ASP.NET Applications
This page is dedicated to collecting resources related to testing of ASP.NET applications. There are a number of tools and techniques available for testing ASP.NET applications. WatiN is a managed code wrapper around the Internet Explorer browser object an
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Application Offline
App_Offline.htm ASP.NET 2.0 introduced the ability to take an application offline simply by adding a file named App_Offline.htm to the application root folder. ASP.NET checks for the presence of this file and, if it exists, stops the app-domain so the application
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Fri, Sep 19, 2008 10:23 PM
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Change default Port for the ASP.NET Development Server
When you use the ASP.NET Development Server to run a file-system Web site, by default, the Web server is invoked on a randomly selected port for localhost. For example, if you are testing a page called Default.aspx, when you run the pageusing the built-in
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Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:29 PM
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Edit code when your ASP.NET Development Server is running
Lot of people trying to edit the code when ASP.NET Development Server is running but they can't. In order to edit code you have to stop debugger/ ASP.NET Development server then you can edit it.If you want to continue code edit while your are running ASP
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Migrating ASP.NET Applications to IIS 7 Integrated Mode
Introduction There had been much discussion on how to make your application compatible with the IIS7 Integrated mode. To know how to make your application compatible with IIS7 integrated mode, you first need to understand what the integrated mode is and why
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Mon, Feb 4, 2008 8:00 AM
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Hosting ISPs
There's a number of different ways to get your application up to your Hosting Provider, depending on what kind of access they've given you. ASP.NET 2.0 Options for Packaging and Deploying Web Apps Web Application Projects & Web Deployment Projects (Video
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Building with MSBUILD
Here's a few good places to start with MSBUILD, the new XML-based makefile system built into .NET. Basic Introduction to MSBUILD MSBUILD MSDN Reference MSBuild Team Blog MSBUILD will build Project Files and Solutions, but as an ASP.NET developer you might
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Building with MSBUILD
Here's a few good places to start with MSBUILD, the new XML-based makefile system built into .NET. Basic Introduction to MSBUILD MSBUILD MSDN Reference MSBuild Team Blog MSBUILD will build Project Files and Solutions, but as an ASP.NET developer you might
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Administration Tools
ASP.NET 2.0 introduced the Web Site Administration Tool, as well as some command line tools you'll want to know how to use. Web Site Administration Tool Overview Expression Web and the ASP.NET Web Admin Tool-Here's how the Admin Tool and Expression
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Architecture
MSDN has an excellent section on Architecting ASP.NET Applications. patterns & practices' Web Client Software Factory on CodePlex!- This factory will provide comprehensive architecture guidance to help customers build web solutions using the Microsoft
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