July 13, 2011
Blog ArchivesDocumenting Key End-to-End Deployment Scenarios
The IIS Web Deployment Tool (Web Deploy) and the deployment features introduced in Visual Studio 2010 enable you to automate many deployment tasks, but we have heard you all that many common scenarios not yet documented fully. We are addressing …
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Announcing HTML5 & CSS3 support for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Since the last few months it feels like web standards are moving at pace that we would really like them to move. Every browser is pushing the envelope ahead including our very own IE9. For the first time it feels like web is getting the extra freedom o…
Parameterization vs. Web.Config Transformation
I was recently asked about being able to change values of different variables like ConnectionStrings, Installation physical directory, app Settings etc during install time rather than build time, so I thought it might be worth while to de-mystify the concepts around Web.Config Transforms and Parameterization… Web.Config Transformation Geeks say Web.Config Transformation is a great feature of Web Deploy (aka MsDeploy), well the first part about being a great feature is true 
but it is important to note that Web.Config Transformation is not a Web Deploy feature but it instead is a VS 2010 only feature. Web.Config Transformation is connected with Build configuration of MSBuild/VS/Team Build etc… Its XML transformation engine is wrapped…(read more)
Applying XDT magic to App.Config
For several weeks now people have been asking to be able to use the XML Document Transform (XDT) with App.Config files similar to what is available with Web.Config files in VS 2010… In all honesty there is no official/supported implementation of XDT for any other project type than Web Application Projects but the good news is that the basis of Web.Config Transformation resides in Web Publishing Pipeline (WPP) which are set of extensible tasks and targets hooked up to provide a great deployment story for Web Applications… Today, Ming (our senior dev on Visual Studio) and I decided to get together to give some love to App.Config file too… The below implementation is a crude way of getting XDT working into other project types within VS 2010…(read more)
Xml Document Transforms (XDT) for any XML file in your project
There have been several requests floating around to be able to use XDTs (the technology behind Web.Debug.Config/Web.Release.Config) with other XML files within the project… To make that feasible I wrote a XmlDocumentTransform.targets file which can generically transform any XML file using the standard Web.Config Transformation syntax introduced with VS 2010… Learn more about XDT & Web.Config Transformation here… Now to get started first download XmlDocumentTransform.targets file from my Skydive… Follow the below simple steps to get transformation working for any well formed XML file in your project… Step 1: Save the downloaded XmlDocumentTransform.targets to %ProgramFiles%\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\XmlDocumentTransform…(read more)
Xml Document Transform (XDT) Snippets for VS 2010
During my PDC talk I had shown some of the snippets that can come handy while using Web.Config Transformations… This post is intended to share the XDT snippets and instructions on how to install them to use them with VS 2010… Download XDT zip file from my SkyDrive Unzip the files and copy the inner XDT folder into %Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Xml\1033\Snippets After this the XDT snippets will be available for you to use within any XML file within VS 2010… To know how to use XDTs for Web.Config file please check out the post about Web.Config Transformations Few interesting points about Transforms & Locators which are worth noting to do pretty powerful stuff with your XML are: Transforms – Transforms act on a XML…(read more)
Web Deployment Projects Released to Beta (WDP for VS 2010)
Our team recently released WDP for VS 2010… The key features to note for WDP for VS 2010 are: All the core features of WDP 2008 Migration from WDP 2008 to WDP 201o Multi-Targeting support in WDP 2010 Support Web Deploy Packages in the WDP project.. You can read more about the above features on our team blog at Visual Web Developer Team Blog Download WDP 2010 Beta by clicking here!! The guidance around using WDP 2010 is Use it if you want to migrate to VS 2010 and are currently using WDP for VS 2008 Use it for TeamBuild/MSBuild based deployment of Web Site Projects in VS 2010… Use them for Web Application Projects (WAPs) if you feel it is extremely important for you to pre-compile/merge your projects… If not then you can use Web Deployment…(read more)
Web Deployment Demos, Slides & Videos for VS 2010 launch
I have been dormant for ever, have been keeping busy on a very exciting project… Anyways April 12th 2010 was a big day with VS 2010 formally launching… Few days back I asked Twitter whether people needed a ready made talk to talk about VS 2010 Web Deployment as part of the community launch events of VS 2010 and got a lot of asks for the content so here it is… Titles & Abstract I would recommend you do not use are below… The reason I say that is coz VS 2010 & Web Deploy are way more exciting than the way I present here; so get creative and make a fun abstract & title… The only reason I have them descriptive is so that you know what are the key items to put in there… Title : Web Deployment with VS 2010 &…(read more)
