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VS2010 deploy web project with nightly build

fritz-onion — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:06:00 GMT

In my Pluralsight Webcast on Web deployment in VS2010 last week there was a question about how to integrate the new Web deployment features of VS2010 into a nightly build (for testing on a staging server, for example). It turns out it's pretty straight forward, once you have your Web solution set up, you can add it to a build definition and have the deploy occur every time the build is fired.

The key to integrating a Web deployment is to point it to your Web solution (under items to build), and under Advanced add the following commands in the MSBuild Arguments:

/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:Configuration=Stage

The DeployOnBuild flag will run the deployment script (including the config file merging and all) when the build is complete. The Configuration setting is what configuration you want to build (the defaults are Debug and Release, but it often makes sense to add new ones like Stage for scenarios like this, especially when it comes to configuration file modifications with XDT).

There's a presentation by Vishal Joshi from PDC09 on Web Deployment that walks through this process - look around minute 26 of this video:
http://www.microsoftpdc.com/2009/FT56

Upcoming conferences - 2010

fritz-onion — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:53:00 GMT

Quick update on my speaking schedule - I'm going to be spending a couple weeks in Europe next month starting with DevWeek in London followed by DevDays in The Hague, and finally TechDays Belgium. I'll be speaking on topics ranging from ASP.NET 4.0 to SharePoint 2010 for ASP.NET developers - I'm really looking forward to it! I'm tempted to stay long enough to catch the first of cycling's spring classics, the Ronde van Vlaanderen http://www.rvv.be/nl/ - always wanted to see some of those races...

Demos for my talks at the 2009 New England Code Camp

fritz-onion — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:08:42 GMT

I had a great time presenting yesterday at the New England Code Camp, thanks to all who showed up! You can grab the demos for my SharePoint for ASP.NET Devs talk here, and the ones for my ASP.NET MVC talk here. Also, here are some links I promised for getting set up with SharePoint:

WSS 3.0
x64: http://link.pluralsight.com/wss3x64
x86: http://link.pluralsight.com/wss3x86

Vista/Win7 installer from Bamboo Nation
http://link.pluralsight.com/wssvista

SharePoint Desginer
http://office.microsoft.com/sharepointdesigner

Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint
http://link.pluralsight.com/3u

Speaking at New England CodeCamp tomorrow

fritz-onion — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:06:57 GMT

I’ll be presenting two talks at tomorrow’s New England Code Camp in Waltham, MA:

@10:30 // Introduction to SharePoint for ASP.NET Developers
@1:30 // ASP.NET MVC Introduction

I’ll have a few Pluralsight t-shirts to hand out, and we’ll be raffling off a free Pluralsight On-Demand! subscription as well. Hope to see you there!

Using jQuery in SharePoint

fritz-onion — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:38:53 GMT

As I sat down to describe some techniques for using jQuery with SharePoint (as I promised at the user group talk I presented last week), I came across this slick new codeplex project by Jan Tielens. He created a way of automatically including jQuery scripts on SharePoint pages just by importing an aspx file into a document library and specifying URL regular expressions. He even includes some nice enhancements to the TaskList as examples of how to use it. Highly recommended! (Original blog post here).

Demos for MaineBytes talk on SharePoint for ASP.NET devs

fritz-onion — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:07:36 GMT

Thanks to all who showed up last night for my user group talk at MaineBytes in Portland, ME. You can download the demo project where I showed the SP API for navigating the SharePoint hierarchy here.

Also, here’s the link to the tool for installing SharePoint on a Windows 7 machine:
http://link.pluralsight.com/wssvista

I’ll have a post on using jQuery in SharePoint soon since I didn’t have time to cover it in the presentation.

Presenting on SharePoint for ASP.NET devs at MaineBytes

fritz-onion — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:19:44 GMT

I’ll be presenting a talk on SharePoint for ASP.NET Developers this Thursday (10/8) at MaineBytes in Portland, ME at 6pm. I look forward to sharing my experiences with digging into SharePoint from an ASP.NET developer’s perspective – hope to see you there!

Demos for Silverlight 2 Controls and ASP.NET MVC talks at DevDays 2009

fritz-onion — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:52:41 GMT

Thanks to all who came to my last two talks on Silverlight 2 controls and ASP.NET MVC. You can grab the slides and demos from here and here respectively.

You may also find my screencast on ASP.NET MVC useful here.

Demos for ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 talk at DevDays 2009 in The Hague

fritz-onion — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:39:38 GMT

Thanks to all who came to my talk today on ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, you can download the slides and demos here.

You may also find my screencast and whitepaper on the topic useful too.

My article on client-side data binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 is now live

fritz-onion — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:23:52 GMT

I’ve written an article on the new client-side data binding mechanism coming in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, which is now live in the inaugural Pluralsight newsletter, which you can read here.

You can subscribe to future newsletters and be the first to read new articles by one of our instructors on our home page.

Demos for MaineBytes UG talk on MVC

fritz-onion — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:00:09 GMT

Thanks to all who showed up last night at the MaineBytes .NET user group, I don’t think there was an empty seat! You can grab the demos from the talk here

New online MVC course and free ASP.NET Ajax 4 screencast

fritz-onion — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:08:26 GMT

Just a quick note to point you to Scott Allen’s new ASP.NET MVC course which is now live on Pluralsight On-Demand!

Also, I just published a free screencast on client-side data binding in the Preview 4 release of ASP.NET Ajax 4.0.

Speaking at DevDays in Holland

fritz-onion — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:16:35 GMT

I’ll be presenting three talks at DevDays in the Netherlands the end of May (28-29), covering ASP.NET Ajax 4.0, Controls in Silverlight 2, and ASP.NET MVC. I’m looking forward to it, never been to The Hague before!

Demos for DevWeek 2009

fritz-onion — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:25:28 GMT

Thanks to all who attended my sessions yesterday on ListView & LINQ, Silverlight Custom Controls, and Server Communication with WCF and ASP.NET Ajax – you can grab the demos for each session here, here, and here.

Demos for DevWeek 2009 Ajax4 and Mvc talks

fritz-onion — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:26:00 GMT

Thanks to all to came to my talks on ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 and Introduction to ASP.NET MVC yesterday - you can grab the demos here and here respectively.