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.