The Demise of Xcopy Deployment

David Truxall, Ph.D.

MSDeploy

One-Click Publish

Who Am I?

www.davidtruxall.com/

Developer – Troubleshooter – Trainer - Consultant

@davetrux

Agenda

• About MSDeploy• IIS Console• Visual Studio 2010• Command-Line

MSDeploy

One-Click Publish

Why MSDeploy?

IIS 6 IIS 7

Where do I get it?

• Web Platform Installer• Separate download• Visual Studio 2010

Architecture

• Provider Based

• Package• Deploy• Synchronize

Verbs• dump• sync• delete• getDependencies• getParameters• getSystemInfo

MSDeploy Process

IIS

PackageFile

MSDeploy Create thePackage

MSDeploy

IIS

VS 2010

Command-line

PowerShell

Deployment• Using IIS Manager UI • Using command file created by Visual Studio 10 • Using command line using MSDeploy.exe • Using Power Shell support provided by MS Deploy • Using managed APIs provided by MS Deploy

Create the Package

Deploy the Package

Providers

CertificatesCOM objects

File System GAC

Machine Config

App PoolsACLs

IIS

SQL Server

MySQL

Registry

Custom

Integrates with IIS Console

• UI• Import/Export– Synchronization– Migration

Remember Today’s Password: Elastic Syntax

Agent Service

IIS Demo

Visual Studio 2010

Managing Web.config

• Transformation– Connection strings– Custom errors

• At Publish, not at Build

Publishing

• Offline• Online

Package

• Manifest• Contents

VS 2010 Demo

Command-Line

msdeploy.exe -verb:<verbName> -source:<provider>[=<pathToProviderObject> [,<providerSetting>=<providerSettingValue>]] [-dest:<provider>[=<pathToProviderObject> [,<providerSetting>=<providerSettingValue>]] ] [-<MSDeployOperationSetting> ...]

Command-Line Demo

Continuous Integration

<Exec Command='"C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe"

-verb:sync -source:contentpath="$(DropLocation)\$(BuildNumber)\Release\Site" -dest:contentpath=\\TESTSERVER\Site' ContinueOnError="false" />

Building A Dev Server

• Configure IIS Management Service• Open firewall port (8172)• Install MSDeploy

PowerShell in Action

Thanks!

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