Web Application Packaging and Deployment | pdc2008

In this session, you will learn how to use powerful new UI and command line tools for Web application packaging and deployment, and you'll dive under the hood of Visual Studio 10 to see how it will support one-click deployment to IIS. You'll learn how to transform your development settings to make them production ready and how a real world shared hosting environment may be securely connected to a developer web application in VS10. You will also hear best practices for setting up your server and development environment to get huge productivity gains.

Saad Ladki

Tags: Advanced, Breakout Session, IIS, Windows Server

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walikchris

I followed all instructions here but got an error ( Civil engineering degree ) "install.sql is not a valid connection string or an absolute path". All examples I could find from other places regarding how to "sync" (i.e. run) a script to a destination database using the web deployment tool. They all do something like "d:\something.sql". How do we refer to a sql script embeded in a package then? Either I missed something very basic or the author didn't test these instructions against a real database application. Any info would be deeply appreciated.

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walikchris

The WebDeploy user interface requires IIS7 and IIS Manager. That is why we specify that this method is only available for testing packages on Windows 2008 and Vista. For other platforms, the batch file method is the only way currently to test applications packages. I'm not sure I understand your concern with using the batch method. Seeing the installed application as a result is the way to test the package. If it installs correctly using the batch file method with valid parameter values provided, then you are most of the way there. The only things that don't get tested using that method are the way the tags influence the user interface. However, the number of tags is small, and you can see many examples of how they are rendered by installing any of the other applications in the Gallery.

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GarryWert

In reply to walikchris

#Jul 15th @ 7:04 AM

All examples I could find from other places regarding how to "sync" (i.e. run) a script to a destination database using the web deployment tool. They all do something like "d:\something.sql". How do we refer to a sql script embeded in a package then? Either I missed something very basic or the author didn't test these instructions against a real database application (Commission Ritual and Commission Ritual Review

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asmirnoff

In reply to GarryWert

#Jul 21st @ 7:45 AM

I as well followed all the instructions and got an error. hvac install.sql is not a valid connection string or an absolute path. After a couple of hours or researching I got it working, let me tell it is a very neat feature. Great JOB !

Jamie24

I think this web tool is very helpfull and is a great idea. I have a airsoft sniper rifle website and I really need all the help I can get. These days it cost a arm and a leg to hire a professional designer / programmer. I am very excited about learning myself and become a better designer.