A few months ago I mentioned a bug we found in MSDeploy v3 around the CommandTimeout attribute and a workaround to avoid it. I honestly think we may have been the first developers to find it because very few know how powerful MSDeploy.exe really is and use it beyond its more popular wrapper WebDeploy. It …
We decided to make the jump to MSDeploy/WebDeploy Parameterization for changing our configuration files in lieu of Config Transformation a few weeks ago. This was a tough decision as I had grown fond of and evangelized Config Transforms for so long. Config Transforms served us well for several years but at the end of the …
We use MSDeploy extensively for automating our deployments at work. We have even created custom MSBuild Targets in Nuget packages which mimic WebDeploy for handling non-Web application (Scheduled Tasks, Windows Services, etc) and SQL deployments, AppDeploy and SqlDeploy respectively. Most of these were created using MSDeploy version 2 and when version 3 was released just …