In my preparation for a “Deploying ASP.NET Core” talk at our dotnetConf.Local Birmingham 2016 event last week, I found the ASP.NET Core documentation has not been updated for the final 1.0 RTM release of ASP.NET Core. The instructions only apply to RC1: If you attempt to use the current documentation you will receive the following …
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There are many examples on the web which provide example MSBuild script to add extra files (not referenced by the project) into a WebDeploy package. Chief among them is Sayed Hashimi’s blog post detailing how it all works. By injecting into the WebDeploy packaging targets you can add additional files into the files to be …
I received a question last week asking how to use MSDeploy to delete a web applicaiton in IIS. This particular use case was for cleaning up old web service versions. That’s no problem, MSDeploy can do that too, using the lesser known and/or under utilized delete verb. From the console You can simply call MSDeploy.exe …
I’ve now seen several questions on StackOverflow about changing the physical path of an IIS site/app using MSDeploy. So I figured this may be helpful for others. I believe MSDeploy can set the physical path using the appHostConfig provider but it didn’t look straight forward. After thinking through this further I decided the runCommand provider …
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I’ve never really used the Website project template in Visual Studio but I have heard from several developers that do. Unlike Web Application projects, Microsoft does not provide MSDeploy integration during the build process for Websites. But there is no reason it wouldn’t work. In this blog post we will create a custom MSDeploy package …
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We implemented Kanban and continuous flow almost two years ago. Continuous Delivery was a big part of that transition and we made big strides in our CD process which allowed us to deploy multiple times per week for most of our products. With the adoption of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) our teams were asked to …
Someone recently asked whether teams who wish to start the Continuos Delivery journey should focus on deployment automation or test automation first. This is a tough question and I’ve struggled with it over the last few weeks but I have finally decided on what I believe is the best approach. BOTH! To better understand my …
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By default WebDeploy/MSDeploy only deploys “changed” files. There are two ways that WebDeploy checks for changed files: by timestamp and checksum. In this blog post we will compare these options. Timestamp By default WebDeploy uses the timestamp method to identify changed files. If you try to deploy the same package twice you will see it …
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I had the amazing opportunity to spend this week seeing how agile can scale to an enterprise level of 400+ team members. In this post I would like to review some of my thoughts and opinions. SAFe – Scaled Agile Framework We have been using Kanban for the last 18 months in our group at …
Several developers have asked how they can extend WebDeploy to do more. As discussed in my Anatomy of WebDeploy Package post, WebDeploy creates a package based on a manifest. The manifest is simply a list of MSDeploy providers. So how do we add more to the manifest? Sayed Hashimi posted an article entitled “Setting Folder …