Visual Studio Deployment Tutorial Series Published

A new series of tutorials about how to deploy an ASP.NET web application has been published on the ASP.NET site:  Deployment to a Hosting Provider. The tutorials show you how to deploy a web application project to a third-party hosting provider using Visual Studio one-click publish.  Here is an outline of the topics covered:

• Deploying SQL Server Compact databases and the database engine.
• Setting up Web.config file transformations.
• Deploying to IIS on the development computer as a test environment.
• Setting folder permissions for an application that needs to be able to write files to a folder.
• Setting up an account at a hosting provider and deploying to the hosting provider.
• Deploying an update when only code is changing (no database change).
• Deploying a database update (SQL Server Compact).
• Migrating from SQL Server Compact to full SQL Server.
• Deploying a database update (SQL Server Express / full SQL Server).

Feedback is welcome, and you can post your comments either here or in the tutorials themselves.

-- Tom Dykstra
ASP.NET and Web Tools Developer Content

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 20, 2011
  How about an article about extending webdeploy on the server side, such as creating a backup before the update are deployed or run some custom code pre- and post deployment?
• Anonymous
  November 21, 2011
  A video tutorial is always helpful. "Deploying to IIS on the development computer as a test environment" is really appreicated.
• Anonymous
  November 22, 2011
  Perfect, thank you!
• Anonymous
  November 23, 2011
  @magnus - There is a new "enterprise deployment" tutorial series under development that will do some of that, possibly being published in December-January time frame.  There are also some blogs that go into extending web deploy -- see especially sedodream.com.@siva - Thanks, I'll pass the request for video on to the team that does videos.