TLDR: Unable to deploy after 1.5 update, removed "net.tcp *:808" binding from Default Web Site in IIS Manager.

A walkthrough of how to set up a web application for automatic deployment through TFS 2010 build server.

"In past few months I and my team have written several blog posts on VS 2010 Web Deployment features… In VS 2010 there was a lot of investment made in Web Deployment and over next few months we will be writing more on the subject…"

You have a WSP and you are trying to deploy it inside the farm and it doesn't work. You hate it. You try to look in the Event Viewer, SharePoint logs, etc. Before you event start looking around everywhere, be sure to know that when you are adding/deploying a solution package you need some specify...

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications.

Web Deployment projects can be used with either the "ASP.NET Web Site" or "ASP.NET Web Application Project" options built-into VS 2008, and provide a few additional build, packaging and deployment options for you to use.

"Visual Studio project files, i.e. .csproj and .vbproj files, _ARE_ MSBuild scripts. When Visual Studio 2005 builds a project it actually calls MSBuild.exe and passes it the project file."

As from my first post, the web application project didnt work with the web deployment project in 2005, and after the release of the web deployment project for visual studio 2008 it is still not working!

User Comment: "If I read this right, this is a catasrophe, isn't it? No one can safely deploy the 3.5 framework with their applications without adding this custom code to their installer?"

Jason Stangroome bumps into an interesting scenario involving ClickOnce deployments and Terminal Services which causes the deployed application to fail to load.

This is a web deployment tool similar to UnleashIt or West Winds web site configuration tool. Bobby DeRosa has kicked it up a notch by integrating it into Visual Studio. Get your FREE copy before he decides to stop giving it away when it becomes a new product.

Fast and easy deployment, including FTP and network transfer. (free!)

Some very common issues while depolying ASP.NET 2.0 project, where developers got confused, as it is pretty different from ASP.NET 1.x ages. Here I tried to clearify these confusions in detail.

Learn the several ways to install Windows applications including ClickOnce and the the Microsoft installer. Excerpt: There are several ways to install Windows applications. Simple applications can be installed with a simple xcopy deployment, but for installation to hundreds of clients, an xcopy depl...