The ASP.NET Merge tool (Aspnet_merge.exe) enables you to combine and manage the assemblies that are created by the ASP.NET compilation tool (Aspnet_compiler.exe). It was built on top of a Microsoft Research project, ILMerge, through which Aspnet_merge.exe does IL code merge. What problem does this new version fix? The first version of thi...
Starting with NuGet 2.6, XML-Document-Transform (XDT) is supported to transform XML files inside a project. The XDT syntax can be utilized in the .install.xdt and .uninstall.xdt file(s) under the package’s Content folder, which will be applied during package installation and uninstallation time, respectively. One of XDT’s greatest stren...
A few months ago, we have a blog talking about extending the web publishing pipeline to package database project deployed SQL file. In this blog, I’ll show step by step example of packaging web application with SQL Server database upgrade SQL file using Visual Studio 2010. This way, we can generate a web package with incremental SQL scr...
When a zip package is built from VS2010 web application UI (via Build Deployment Package command), or through command line (msbuild myproject.csproj /t:package), a few files are generated in the destination folder. Here’s some brief description: It’s very common to deploy our package to a IIS7 virtual application under Default Web ...
A Visual Studio solution file may contain both database project and a web application project. When deploying (not building) the database project, it can generate a .sql file containing the full sql file or an incremental upgrade file against a database. This blogs walkthrough one way to package database project generated sql file into ...
I’ll use a walkthrough example to show how to package a web application with speech API COM component using Visual Studio 2010. I wrote and tested the sample in Win7 x86 with IIS7.5, and packaged and manually installed to win2k3 x86 IIS6 (which only had 3.5 framework installed). 1. Create a C# 3.5 web application 2. Add COM reference to “Mi...
If we want to package and deploy GACed dll, we need to use gacAssembly web deploy provider and extend our project similarly to the one stated in the how to package registry blog. The extended projectName.wpp.targets file looks like following: Then you can use the following command line to package the project with corresponding Mv...
Web project package and deployment targets files are written with extensibility in mind. User can easily extend a property to include more functionalities in their package by using msbuild targets and properties. If we check the Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets file under “%Program Files%MSBuildMicrosoftVisualStudiov10.0Web”, we can s...
