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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.

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 11:35 PM by dotservant	Great list of articles, does help me a lot in my current project. Thanks a lot.
Thu, Mar 6, 2008 6:16 AM by vorlosha	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.
Wed, Jul 23, 2008 6:04 AM by IsrarAli	well i can also search so many articles

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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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Mon, Feb 4, 2008 8:00 AM by

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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Sat, Sep 13, 2008 8:12 AM by

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