Preparing and Packaging Applications For Deployment

Overview/Description
This course covers the key aspects of and approaches to packaging .NET applications for deployment and is one of a series that prepares students for Microsoft exam 70-487.

Target Audience
Developers wanting to learn about packaging their .NET solutions for deployment and those preparing for Microsoft exam 70-487.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Preparing and Packaging Applications For Deployment

• start the course
• use Xcopy to deploy a .NET application without packaging it
• describe application packaging and deployment options in .NET
• switch between the Debug and Release modes
• configure IIS server settings using an in-built mechanism
• set application permissions and passwords
• configure the new App Suspend model
• use XSLT transformations to prepare web.config files for packaging
• include or exclude files in a final application package
• describe how certificates are used and how to include them in application packages
• create and configure an IIS Application Pool
• configure the settings for an Azure deployment or just a single role
• use interning to share assemblies across servers and projects
• implement assembly signing and strong naming
• add an assembly to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) as part of an application deployment
• implement assembly and file versioning
• create an assembly manifest
• configure assembly binding redirects
• manually create an application package for deployment
• create an IIS install package for distributing a web application
• automatically create an application package as part of the build process
• automate a build from a TFS build server
• configure Azure settings for an application as part of the packaging process
• prepare an application for packaging