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ASP.NET Web Application: Publish/Package Tokenizing Parameters

November 10, 2010 Nov 10, 2010 11/10/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  Today I just saw a question posted on stackoverflow.com asking Why are some Web.config transforms tokenised into SetParameters.xml and others are not? Let me give some background on this topic for those who are not aware of what the question is. With Visual Studio 2010 when you package your application using the Build Deployment Package...

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.&...

Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package using VS 2010

February 8, 2009 Feb 8, 2009 02/8/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In the earlier post I highlighted various investments that we are making in Visual Studio 2010 and IIS to make Web Deployment easier.  You can read that post below: Deploying a web project with all its correct dependencies is not a trivial task. Some of the assets which need to be considered during deployment are...

Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS

February 4, 2009 Feb 4, 2009 02/4/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Today, deploying a web application is not as easy as it should be. Whether you are deploying your web to a shared hosting environment and paying monthly to maintain it OR whether you have a web server/s managed by your enterprise, there are a lot of manual steps involved in getting your application from point A to point B. If you are ...

Exclude Files and Folders from WDP Output

October 4, 2008 Oct 4, 2008 10/4/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web  Deployment Projects (WDP) allows you to pre-compile your web into binaries and further also allows you to merge the assemblies produced in the format that you like. In my earlier posts I had talked about various WDP features and the latest release of WDP for VS 2008.  You can read more about this here By default in the WDP ...

Tips & Tricks: Upgrading Projects from ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 to Preview 2 (MIX 2008)

March 12, 2008 Mar 12, 2008 03/12/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  If you previously had ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 (CTP 1) and had already created a few projects on it then you might have to take this additional step to convert your project to ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (MIX 2008) [After installing MVC Preview 2 (Resources here)]. In ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 we introduced a special MVC Project flavor GUID for ...

Tips & Tricks: Web Server Settings for Web Application Projects now can be stored per user as well as per project

January 17, 2008 Jan 17, 2008 01/17/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web server settings, which are accessible inside Web Application Projects (WAPs) property pages (Web section)  allow you to specify settings associated to to Visual Studio Development Server or IIS.  Many a times in a team development environment it is preferred that these settings are shared across the teams providing consistency; ...

Visual Web Developer is hiring…

December 12, 2007 Dec 12, 2007 12/12/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The Visual Web Developer team is looking for a few talented and experienced invididuals to join our team.  We have opportunities in development, testing, and program management.  Our team builds Visual Studio features that enable creating applications for ASP.NET, IIS, Silverlight and Sharepoint.Here are ...