As of this morning I have made my first VSTS task public in the VisualStudio VSTS Marketplace. I blogged about my experience developing the task last month. Check that post out for more details: VSTS Release: Custom Deploy Task to Deploy Virtual Applications to Azure This is just the beginning! I plan to add more …
MSDeployAllTheThings VSTS/TFS Extension is Public! Read More »
In this blog post we will deploy a console app using MSDeploy. We use a similiar approach at EBSCO to deploy Scheduled Tasks and Windows Services. Step 1: Extending MSBuild The setup for this follows the same pattern we used in the Deploying a Databased Project with MSDeploy to extend MSBuild by adding a targets …
I mentioned service versioning briefly in my Are you Release Ready? post two weeks ago as one of the ways you can avoid breaking existing customers of a web service. Many developers assume we have an elaborate and complex service versioning system. We do not. Its very simple, we add a new application under an …
I recently answered a question on StackOverflow about altering a WebDeploy package which spawned the idea for this post. Most developers consider WebDeploy to be nothing short of magic and have no real understanding of its inner workings. To be honest, I still don’t feel like I have a “full” understanding of WebDeploy but I …