Most people assume they need to install WebDeploy and the Agent Service on all their application servers to use WebDeploy but that is not always the case. File Deployments First, not all deployments require the Agent Service. For example, the dirPath provider can deploy files to a remote server without using the agent. It simply …
WebDeploy Quick Tip: Deploy without installing the Agent Service Read More »
In general, its pretty easy to extend the MSBuild process in ASP.NET projects using the [ProjectName].wpp.targets file. I recently attempted to answer a StackOverflow question asking how to automatically deploy on every Visual Studio build using this technique. My first overly-confident answer was to add the same MSBuild properties that would be used from the …
I recently repaved my machine with Windows 10 and a fresh copy of VS2017 only. I have been using it for several weeks now and it is working very well. In testing some deployments I noticed that I didn’t have the WebDeploy Remote Agent Service running locally. So I tried to reinstall WebDeploy from a …
Install the WebDeploy Remote Agent Service in Windows 10 with VS2017 Read More »
Its been a few months now since I was on the DotNetRocks podcast speaking about “Making MSDeploy Work”. I mentioned there that we had considered open sourcing the Nuget packages we use to create MSDeploy packages for all our deployable components but only if it was something the community was interested in and would use. …
MSDeployAllTheThings Nuget packages are now Open Sourced! Read More »
There is a lot of buzz amonst the development community at large about Continuous Delivery. Everyone seems to think its a good idea but I’ve seen few execute implementation well. In this post, we will briefly review what CD is and then I’ll give my opinions on the best way to implement it (HINT: its …
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 …
Last year I blogged about how we use MSDeploy in our development group at EBSCO to deploy not just web applications but also Windows services, scheduled tasks and SQL databases. EXTENDING MSDEPLOY BEYOND THE WEB As a followup to that post I will be blogging a series of posts (grouped with the tag “msdeployallthethings”) that …