Entries tagged with deployment - Channel 9

.NET 4 Client Profile

Jaime Rodriguez — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:57:00 GMT

Jossef Goldberg and Jaime Rodriguez discuss the status of Client Profile in .NET 4 and VS2010 beta 2.

Client profile is a subset of the full .NET framework that includes only the assemblies needed for desktop client applications; the subset decreases download size and improves install time of the framework, improving the overall deployment experience.

Related reads:
Jossef's deep dive into client profile
Comprehensive post with all the new features in WPF 4 beta 2.

geekSpeak Recording - WCF Deployment Strategies with Keith Elder

Brian Johnson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:29:00 GMT

In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Keith Elder shares tips and techniques from his experience deploying Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services with Internet Information Services 7 (IIS7) in the enterprise. We look at setting up IIS7, configuring IIS 7 with multiple host headers, and how to make IIS7 work with WCF. This geekSpeak is hosted by Glen Gordon and Lynn Langit.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Presenter
Keith Elder, Senior Software Engineer, Quicken Loans
Keith Elder is the host of the popular online technology podcast Deep Fried Bytes. He is also a team leader and senior software engineer for Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online mortgage lender based in Livonia, Michigan, and he is the founder of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, .NET User Group called Hub City NUG. Keith is an experienced technologist, systems administrator, software engineer, speaker, trainer, and all around geek. He has logged thousands of hours of teaching and has trained countless developers from various business sectors, ranging from top auto manufactures to Fortune 500 companies to universities. As a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and International .NET Association (INETA) speaker, he speaks throughout the United States at major technical conferences, Code Camps, and .NET user groups. Keith's ability to explain complex topics with a friendly, common sense, southern attitude makes him a highly regarded speaker at technical conferences. You can read more about Keith's interests, hobbies, rants, and raves on his blog at http://keithelder.net/blog/.

Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:15:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer Mary Lee demonstrates how to deploy an Office solution and implement a post-deployment action that copies a document to the end user's desktop. You can learn more in the topic Walkthrough: Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Deployment in .NET 4 Beta 1

Adam Kinney — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:08:00 GMT

Jossef Goldberg explains how the deployment of your client applications will be easier in .NET 4. The new Client Profile and improved Visual Studio feature integration are shown off as we walk through building a simple application and deploying it to a non-developer's computer. Form more information check out Jossef's blog on WPF Performance and the .NET Framework Client Profile.

Re-signing ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE

Beth Massi — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:12:00 GMT

In this interview I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program Manager on the Office Client team, who is responsible for the ClickOnce publishing functionality in Visual Studio. We chat about trust issues and certificates and he sets me straight on how ClickOnce deployment and application manifests work. He then shows how to re-sign them outside of Visual Studio using a tool called Mage. This is really handy for folks that need to modify the files within a deployment package, like the application settings (app.config) file, but don't have Visual Studio installed.

Saurabh draws on the whiteboard in this one and since I'm a one (wo)man show I couldn't jump up and zoom in so I redrew it for you all here.

Saurabh has also posted more details in an article he wrote here.

Links from the show:

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Sayed Hashimi on MS Build

Brian Johnson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:35:00 GMT

This weekend I visited the Tampa Code Camp, where I was able to talk to Sayed Hashimi. Sayed is the co-author of the upcoming MS Press book title, Inside the Microsoft Build Engine.

In this short talk, Sayed describes some of the features of MS Build and shows how MS Build can be used to deploy an app as part of the build process.

Inside the Microsoft Build Engine is scheduled to be released in January.

geekSpeak recording: All About Team Build 2008 with Steven Borg

glengo — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:09:00 GMT

In this episode of geekSpeak, Steven Borg shares the merits of using Team Build 2008 to radically improve the quality of the code you write. Steven gives a great overview of how to set up automated builds and a build server, and the benefits of investing the time to do it right.

Steven also spends a bit of time talking about why he loves Test-Driven Development (TDD) - but pragmatically rather than zealously. Nonetheless, things like work items, build reports, logs and changesets available with Team Foundation Server can help developers zero in on bugs that "break the build". Breaking the build is bad, and we have a good chuckle about some of the stiff "penalties" that various development teams (even some within Microsoft) come up with for that infraction.

Also in this geekSpeak, get the scoop on what's on the horizon for setup and deployment projects, and hear about a great tool called WIX which makes building projects into MSI files super easy. Steven goes so far as to say that WIX actually changed the way he works, listen to him explain why.

Steven also gives tips on how many of you already have access to Team Foundation Server (and therefore, Team Build) and don't even know it. So it's easy to incorporate these tools into your software build process and, through the Continuous Integration they afford, drive up quality and enhance team involvement. As Steven says, it's like "a little bit of magic."

This geekSpeak was hosted by Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar.

About our guest: Steven Borg

Steven Borg, a Northwest Cadence principal and the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) practice lead, works with corporations to improve their automated build process and overall software development process. In addition, Steven assists the Team System community as a Team System Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and was a founding member of the Seattle-based VSTS User Group. Northwest Cadence is a Microsoft Certified Partner and VSTS Inner Circle partner that focuses exclusively on helping companies improve their Application Lifecycle Management using Visual Studio Team System.

WPF 3.5 SP1 Deployment with Troy Martez

Adam Kinney — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:48:18 GMT

Troy Martez and Dr. Sneath go on a deep dive into the new client deployment options available in WPF 3.5 SP1. Interesting new features include the Client Profile (something like a "diet .NET Framework") which allows for smaller setup packages and new customizations during the installation process.

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