This is the twenty-eighth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. This blog post continues a series of posts I'm doing that cover the new improvements we made around web deployment. In my first post in the deployment series I provided an overview of the new VS 2010 Web Deployment features. In today's post I'm going to be discussing Microsoft Web Deploy - which is a free server technology that enables a comprehensive publishing and deployment mechanism. Web Deploy enables you to not only publish files - but also provision database schema/data, run database change scripts, set security ACLs, and more. All of these deployment steps can be automated using Visual Studio. This post will provide a step...(read more) ...
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