If you follow my tweets you, probably know I’m a big fan of the new build/release system in TFS 2015 and VSTS. It is super flexible and supports so many new use cases. We upgraded from TFS 2010 to 2015 last year and have been using the build system successfully since. We typically have 4 …
In an effort to make using the MSDeployAllTheThings Nuget packages as easy to use as possible, I have updated the SQLDeploy framework to default to using DacPacs and provide parameterization files. These are the two most useful features of the framework in my opinion and were not highlighted appropriately. Now packaging your SQL Server database …
I recently blogged about where to start CD, with test or deployment automation? The conclusion I came to was neither answer is correct, you should work on both incrementally because one without the other is not very useful. Working on both should produce more value to customers quicker even if each moves slower individually. I …
I just wanted to share a quick post regarding some information I found today about the future of WCF and .NET Core. This has been a hot topic over the last few months and there has been a lot of incorrect information floating around so I hope this helps clear some of that up. The …
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 …
Its been a few months now since I was on the DotNetRocks podcast speaking about “Making MSDeploy Work”. I mentioned there that we had considered open sourcing the Nuget packages we use to create MSDeploy packages for all our deployable components but only if it was something the community was interested in and would use. …
MSDeployAllTheThings Nuget packages are now Open Sourced! Read More »
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 …
WebDeploy/MSDeploy Quick TIP: Change IIS Site/APP Physical Path with MSDeploy Read More »
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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