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Web Deploy (MSDeploy) how to sync a folder

August 22, 2012 Aug 22, 2012 08/22/12
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
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. To give you an example of some of the providers; when ...

Plans regarding Website projects and Web Deployment Projects

August 6, 2012 Aug 6, 2012 08/6/12
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
The release of Visual Studio 2012 is right around the corner. If you’ve been following our blog/twitter then you may know that many of the Web related components of Visual Studio are now“out-of-band”, meaning that we can update them independently of Visual Studio itself. Because of this we are planning to ship updates a few times a year...

Visual Studio 2010 Web Publish Updates

June 15, 2012 Jun 15, 2012 06/15/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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. You can get these updates in the Windows Azure SDK for Visual Studio 2010. ...

XDT (web.config) Transforms in non-web projects

November 17, 2010 Nov 17, 2010 11/17/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...

Visual Studio 2010 MVC 2 Upgrade Wizard

April 13, 2010 Apr 13, 2010 04/13/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Prior to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2010, the only way to upgrade an ASP.Net MVC 1 application to ASP.Net MVC 2 was to use Eilon Lipton’s tool. With the release of Visual Studio 2010 you will now be able to open your MVC 1 projects in Visual Studio 2010 and upgrade them to ASP.Net MVC 2 projects. Also, you can upgrade the target ...

Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from ORCS Web

March 5, 2010 Mar 5, 2010 03/5/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ORCS Web has updated their Hosting Sandbox for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC.http://vs2010host.comTo learn more about the new Web Deployment features in Visual Studio 2010 check out this Step by Step Walkthrough on Web 1-Click Publish with VS 2010To provide feedback on the RC please visit the Visual Studio Connect site.  You ...

ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

October 23, 2009 Oct 23, 2009 10/23/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective...

Single Project Add View in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2

October 15, 2009 Oct 15, 2009 10/15/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Last week we released ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. In the box support for single project areas is now included and the Add View tool has been modified to streamline this scenario. A walkthrough that creates two simple single project areas can be found here. If you follow the steps in the walkthrough you will notice that ...

Updated NUnit Templates for ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM

April 28, 2009 Apr 28, 2009 04/28/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM has been out for a while and I noticed that people are still downloading an NUnit sample project I created for ASP.Net MVC Preview 3. Since then an AccountController class and a corresponding set of unit tests have been added to the MVC Application project. I created an updated set of NUnit templates with tests for the Home...

Web Packaging: Creating web packages using MSBuild

February 24, 2009 Feb 24, 2009 02/24/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This post is next in the series of VS 2010 articles that we have been putting together to dive into the Web Deployment improvements with VS 2010 and IIS.  I would recommend reading the the preceding posts to get an overview of all the scenarios supported: In this post I will cover web package creation using MSBuild command line.&...