Chapter 17. Web Deployment Tool, Part 1

Deployment of ASP.NET web applications has historically been very challenging and widely varied across different teams. In fact, if you put 10 different ASP.NET developers in a room and ask them how they deploy their applications today, you may hear a slew of different answers, some of which are outlined in the list that follows.

  • Manual FTP transfer

  • RoboCopy

  • psexec.exe

  • MSBuild

  • Microsoft System Center

  • .msi files that are manually installed

And the list goes on—you probably have a few others as well. Different groups use different tools for several reasons, including the fact that there is no single recommended practice today, and that many tools that exist today don’t cover the broad spectrum of scenarios that exist. ...

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