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August 27, 2018Aug 27, 201808/27/18
Endpoint Routing in 2.2
What is it?
We’re making a big investment in routing starting in 2.2 to make it interoperate more seamlessly with middleware. For 2.2 this will start with us making a few changes to the routing model, and adding some minor features.
October 29, 2013Oct 29, 201310/29/13
In Visual Studio 2013 we have added a couple of small features for web publishing that I’d like to share with you. Those updates are; how to take your app offline during publishing and how you can update the default file compare option.
September 11, 2013Sep 11, 201309/11/13
We are now making it easier to create a new Windows Azure Web Site from Visual Studio 2013 RC. This feature can be accessed from the Web Sites sub node under the Windows Azure node in Server Explorer. You would need to install Azure SDK 2.1 before you can use this feature.
August 22, 2013Aug 22, 201308/22/13
I’ve written a few blog posts on how to exclude files from publishing/packaging. In each of these posts you’d have to be familiar with MSBuild and the Web Publish process. I’ve been looking for a much simpler way to exclude files/folder from publishing.
August 22, 2012Aug 22, 201208/22/12
Today I saw the following question on StackOverflow MSDeploy – Deploying Contents of a Folder to a Remote IIS Server and decided to write this post to answer the question.
Web Deploy (aka MSDeploy) uses a provider model and there are a good number of providers available out of the box.
June 15, 2012Jun 15, 201206/15/12
Last week we rolled out some updates for our Visual Studio 2010 Web Publishing Experience. This post will give you an overview of the new features which we released. In the coming weeks there will be more posts getting into more details regarding individual features.
June 14, 2012Jun 14, 201206/14/12
We have two sets of ASP.NET providers which currently exist; the ASP.NET SQL providers, and the ASP.NET Universal Providers. In VS 2010 the SQL providers were in only providers used for our project templates. In VS 2012 we have switched to using the Universal Providers.
June 14, 2012Jun 14, 201206/14/12
In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a database publishing experience in the Package/Publish SQL (PP/SQL) properties page. This support relies on generating create scripts from the source database and then executing those scripts when you publish your web application. For more details regarding this feature take a look at Package/Publish SQL Tab,
January 8, 2011Jan 8, 201101/8/11
Back in November I participated in Virtual Tech Days which is an online conference presented by Microsoft. In the session I discussed the enhancements to web deployment using Visual Studio 2010 and MSDeploy. Some of the topics which I covered includ:
web.conig (XDT) transforms
How to publish to local file system using Visual Studio
How to publish to a 3rd party host using Visual Studio via MSDeploy
How to publish to local IIS server using the .cmd file generated by Visual Studio
How to use msdeploy.exe to delete IIS applications
How to use the IIS Manager to import web packages
How to use msdeploy.exe to deploy a web package to the local IIS server
How to use msdeploy.exe to deploy a web package to a remove IIS server
How to use msdeploy.exe to deploy a web package &
November 17, 2010Nov 17, 201011/17/10
One of the really cool features that we shipped for Visual Studio 2010 was web.config (XDT) transformations. Because the transformations are so simple and straightforward one of the first questions that someone asks after using it is “how can I use this in my other projects?” Unfortunately this feature is only built into the Web Application Projects (WAP).
