Visual Studio 2010 Web Publish Updates
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...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012 RC Web Tooling Extensions update
If you have been following our blog and twitter accounts then you most likely have heard that some of the Web components of Visual Studio 2012 are now “Out of Band”. What that means is that we can...
View ArticlePlans regarding Website projects and Web Deployment Projects
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”,...
View ArticleHow to create Web Deploy packages in Visual Studio 2012
When building Visual Studio 2012 we made an effort to reduce the amount of menu options which are shown on toolbars as well as context menus. If you have used any of the pre-release versions of VS 2012...
View ArticleMore info on publish links in Visual Studio 2012
Within the web publishing tools in Visual Studio there are a few places where we point to more resources. For example if you open a VS publish profile (.pubxml) file you will see a link in the comments...
View ArticleProfile specific web.config transforms and transform preview
When we released VS2010 we add support for web.config (XDT) transforms during publish/package. Note: From now on I’ll only use the word publish from now on but the full content relates to packaging as...
View ArticleVisual Studio project compatibility and VisualStudioVersion
One of the most requested features of Visual Studio 2012 was the ability to open projects in both VS 2012 as well as VS 2010 (requires VS 2010 SP1). In case you haven’t heard we did implement that...
View ArticleWeb Deploy (MSDeploy) how to sync a folder
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...
View ArticleReal Scenario: folder deployment scenarios with MSDeploy
Hi everyone Sayed here. I recently had a customer, Johan, contact me to help with some challenges regarding deployment automation. He had some very specific requirements, but he was able to automate...
View ArticleXDT (XML Document Transform) released on codeplex.com
In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a simple and straight forward method of transforming web.config during publishing/packaging. This support is called XML Document Transform, aka XDT. It allows you to...
View ArticleASP.NET Web Projects: web.debug.config & web.release.config
DIsclaimer: You may experience some in-consistent behavior using this technique. If so please let us know.I have heard a lot of questions and confusion regarding web.debug.config and...
View ArticleWeb Deploy: How to see the command executed in Visual Studio during publish
I just saw a post on Twitter asking the question Is there any easy way to see the underlying MSBuild command when building in VS2010? Want to see the MSDeploy params. @wdeploy?One thing to know is...
View ArticleASP.NET Web Application: Publish/Package Tokenizing Parameters
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...
View ArticleXDT (web.config) Transforms in non-web projects
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...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta IIS Express Integration
A few days ago Jason Zander blogged about the availability of Visual Studio SP1 Beta (all links below in resources section). I am happy to let you guys know that with SP1 Beta we have enabled...
View ArticleVideo on Web Deployment using Visual Studio 2010 and MSDeploy
Back in November I participated in Virtual Tech Days which is an online conference presented by Microsoft. In the session I discussed the enhancements to web deployment using Visual Studio 2010 and...
View ArticleHow to compress CSS/JavaScript before publish/package
Today I saw a post on stackoverflow.com asking Using Microsoft AJAX Minifier with Visual Studio 2010 1-click publish. This is a response to that question. The Web Publishing Pipeline is pretty...
View ArticleVS Publish dialog Update Database dialog disabled
If you have tried out our new Web Publish experience in Visual Studio you may have noticed that the Update Database checkbox is disabled. See the image below.The intended behavior of this checkbox is...
View ArticleDatabase settings in the VS Publish dialog
In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a database publishing experience in the Package/Publish SQL (PP/SQL) properties page. This support relies on generating create scripts from the source database and...
View ArticleASP.NET providers and SQL Azure
We have two sets of ASP.NET providers which currently exist; the ASP.NET SQL providers, and the ASP.NET Universal Providers. In VS 2010 the SQL providers were in only providers used for our project...
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