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New version of ASP.NET Merge Tool

July 15, 2015 Jul 15, 2015 07/15/15
Matt FJH
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 ...

How to use XDT in NuGet – Examples and Facts

October 24, 2013 Oct 24, 2013 10/24/13
danliu-nuget
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 ...

An example of packaging web application containing database upgrade SQL file

August 9, 2010 Aug 9, 2010 08/9/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...

A practical example of using web application deployment package with IIS7

June 25, 2010 Jun 25, 2010 06/25/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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...

Extending the Web Publishing Pipeline to package database project deployed SQL file

March 24, 2010 Mar 24, 2010 03/24/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...

How to package and deploy COM component

March 3, 2010 Mar 3, 2010 03/3/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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...

How to package .NET assemblies

February 19, 2010 Feb 19, 2010 02/19/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...

How to extend target file to include registry settings for web project package

February 9, 2010 Feb 9, 2010 02/9/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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...