October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
Content preview from ASP.NET 4 Unleashed
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Packaging Web Applications
When ASP.NET was first released, one of its most lauded features was Xcopy deployment. This basically referred to the ability of a developer to copy files from one location to the other, and the application should work. This was a response to the often complicated web deployment process of legacy ASP applications.
Copying files to deploy a web application is still a benefit, but today’s web applications have become far more than just a collection of .aspx files and the site’s compiled DLL file. Modern web applications carry a tremendous amount of “baggage” and modern developers need a way of bundling all that baggage with an application to deploy it smoothly and quickly.
Today’s web applications can consist of any ...