OK, so some of this stuff would have been (and still would be) very helpful during my recent updates to Community Megaphone. I finally got around to setting up a separate dev database, plus a staging server for testing new bits in a non-local setting before pushing them out to the main site. Managing the connection strings, app settings, and other changes to web.config between the dev, staging, and production site was hardly a pleasant task. From the episode below, it looks like the web.config transformations alone will be reason enough for me to jump on VS 2010 as soon as possible:
In this episode of 10-4, we'll look at new features coming in Visual Studio 2010 that make deploying web applications a lot easier. We'll look at web.config transformations, the Microsoft web deployment tool and web one-click deployment. For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4 Information on the Web Deployment Tool: http://www.iis.net/extensions/WebDeploymentTool PDC Session by Vishal Joshi on Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC33/ Visual Studio Topic Area on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC: http://tinyurl.com/GetCTP
In this episode of 10-4, we'll look at new features coming in Visual Studio 2010 that make deploying web applications a lot easier. We'll look at web.config transformations, the Microsoft web deployment tool and web one-click deployment. For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4
Information on the Web Deployment Tool: http://www.iis.net/extensions/WebDeploymentTool PDC Session by Vishal Joshi on Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC33/ Visual Studio Topic Area on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio
Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC: http://tinyurl.com/GetCTP
10-4 Episode 10: Making Web Deployment Easier | 10-4 | Channel 9