Web Deployment Projects for VS08 released as CTP & Migration tips

Dec 02, 2007

My old build script wasn’t working after the migration to this new version and you will find in this post the different adaptation that I had to do.

Add missing ToolsVersion as following:

How to: Prepare IIS for Deployment of Office Solutions (2007 System)

Nov 30, 2007

Users can install Microsoft Office solutions by opening the deployment manifest from the Web. However, a secured installation of Internet Information Services (IIS) will block the .vsto file name extension. The MIME type must be defined in IIS before you deploy Office solutions by using IIS.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb608629(VS.90).aspx

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Nice feature of Visual Studio 2005/2008

Nov 30, 2007

I am currently migrating Tech Head Brothers Authoring tool to Visual Studio 2008! And found this cool feature, it is crazy that you use a tool for quite some time (VS05) and always find little trick like that.

Linked files in Visual Studio projects

Nov 30, 2007

Following my post “Visual Studio and PowerShell Trick“ I had another little issue, I have one mapping file, mapping.xml, that I want to use on my website and with my data access layer unit tests project.

Visual Studio and PowerShell Trick

Nov 30, 2007

This end of afternoon I worked on the mapping part of my new project for innoveo solutions, a blog engine.

Till now I was using the XML Persistence Engine of Euss but it was time to go to a real mapping and a database.

New web application deployment framework for IIS 7

Nov 30, 2007

This announcement from Scott sounds really cool:

We will also shortly begin sharing details of a new web application deployment framework for IIS that enables you to easily automate the deployment of web applications on either a single server or across a web farm of machines. It will make it easy to version your web applications (including allowing you to quickly roll back to previous versions), as well as automatically provision them across multiple servers. It also enables the full automation of deployment tasks (including via both command-line and PowerShell scripting APIs). The combination of IIS7 with this web deployment framework will enable you to deploy and scale your ASP.NET server applications better than ever before.

Migration of Tech Head Brothers portal to .NET Framework 3.5

Nov 28, 2007

I started yesterday the migration of Tech Head Brothers portal to .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.

The automatic migration of the solution went straight without any error. During the process I was asked if I want to now target .NET Framework 3.5, replying yes seems not to have changed all things needed, for example in the solution properties I had to do the change manually, but it seems that the web.config was updated correctly.