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Web Deployment Tool and PowerShell Blog
If you want to use the Web Deployment Tool with PowerShell, look no further than our own tester James Cook's PowerShell blog post. He shows how to invoke our deployment APIs through PowerShell to perform a local sync of content. In future posts, he plans to add remoting and other capabilities.
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WebDeploy Auto-Completion UI
As the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool gained popularity, it has undergone a lot of churn which resulted in the continual addition of new features and a humongous set of command-line options. This tool has been built to alleviate a lot of pain in the usage of our command-line. The WebDeploy Auto-completion tool is intended for both beginning and advanced users of the WebDeploy command-line tool to aid them in understanding and exploiting its many features.
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Web Deployment Tool 1.0 has shipped!
After 2 years of development and lots of customer feedback, we are proud to announce that the Web Deployment Tool has shipped the RTW of our version 1.0!
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UI sample for web farm synchronization
One of our team members has built a pretty cool sample UI that allows syncing of multiple web servers and also using file change notifications to trigger syncs. Take a look at the sample at http://blogs.iis.net/moshaikh/archive/2009/04/26/web-server-change-notification-or-web-server-compare-or-multi-server-sync-in-a-web-farm.aspx
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Changes to the Sample Custom Provider for MySql (dbFullMySql)
During the RC release, we published a custom provider that will help you sync MySql databases. This is just a sample provider to help folks understand how to write a provider and is not required, as our RTW version supports MySQL in the box.
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What has changed about skip-replace rules in RC?
There has been a lot of buzz around the way skip rules have changed in the RC version of MSDeploy. Here is a blog post that will explain what has changed and what are the current limitations.
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New release of MS Deploy RC1
We have a new release of the RC1 build to fix a couple issues that people found. We recommend that folks download the new version as it fixes some important issues.
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MSDeploy Sample Custom Provider to sync MySql databases(dbFullMySql).
In the RC version of MSDeploy, we shipped the dbMySql provider. The dbMySql povider can be used to sync a MySql script to a database. It cannot be used for initial deployment of a MySql database to an empty database or dumping a MySql database to a script file like the dbFullSql provider. In the RC version, we have the capability to add custom providers that can perform certain specific tasks for you. I wrote a custom provider (dbFullMySql) with help from the MSDeploy dev team, that extends MSDeploy functionality and can approximately mimic the basic functionality of the MSDeploy SQL Database provider functionality, i.e.
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Web Deployment Tool RC1 has shipped
The Web Deployment team is excited to announce that RC1 shipped this morning! We now have a release candidate that can be used for production testing and supports many new features.
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Beta 2 skip and replace rules
We posted about skip and replace rules awhile back, but this is probably one of the more complex areas of MS Deploy. You have to understand our provider structure to figure out what type of object needs to be replaced, what attribute, and then write a RegEx match. There are a lot of parameters you can set to scope the rules, and then the added complexity of regular expressions. So I wanted to post some of my favorite rules (not in priority order ;-)) for the command-line and also show the same rule for the PowerShell cmdlets.
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Visual Studio 2010 deployment features (including MS Deploy)
We briefly mentioned that Visual Studio 2010 is integrating the Web Deployment Tool, but we didn't really go into details.