Scott Hanselman – Web Deployment Made Awesome: If You’re Using XCopy, You’re Doing It Wrong

 

Here’s an outline of what Deployment Related topics Scott covered

• Web Packaging – Offline vs. Online
  • From VS 2010
  • From IIS Manager
• Web.Config Transformation
  • Transform Syntax
  • Locator Syntax
  • Why not XSLT?
• Deploying
  • Command Line
  • What If Switch
  • From IIS
  • Content Sync
• DB Deployment
  • Scripting Source DB
  • Adding custom SQL Scripts
• Download and Deployment of Open Source
  • Web PI
  • App Gallery
• One Click Publish
  • Using Web Deploy (Ms Deploy) WMSVC
  • Using Web Deploy (Ms Deploy) Remote Agent
  • Using InProc Web Deploy (Ms Deploy)

Here’s some cool highlights about WebDeployment in Visual Studio 2010. You can right-click on your web.config and click "Add Config Transforms."

When you do this, you’ll get a web.debug.config and a web.release.config. You can make a web.whatever.config if you like, as long as the name lines up with a configuration profile. These files are just the changes you want made, not a complete copy of your web.config.

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