Deployment to a Hosting Provider

In this chapter, you'll learn:
How to make an ASP.NET web application available over the Internet by deploying it to a third-party hosting provider.

  1. Introduction

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    This tutorial introduces the deployment tutorial series and reviews application features that affect deployment.

  2. Deploying SQL Server Compact Databases

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    This tutorial creates the databases used for the tutorial and shows how to configure deployment to include the databases.

  3. Web.Config File Transformations

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    This tutorial discusses options for making changes to the Web.config file during deployment.

  4. Configuring Project Properties

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    This tutorial reviews project settings that affect what happens during deployment.

  5. Deploying to IIS as a Test Environment

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    This tutorial shows how to deploy the application to IIS on your development computer as a test environment.

  6. Setting Folder Permissions

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    In this tutorial you learn how to set file or folder permissions as part of the deployment process.

  7. Deploying to the Production Environment

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    In this tutorial you set up an account with a hosting provider and deploy your application to the production environment.

  8. Deploying a Code-Only Update

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    This tutorial takes you through the process of deploying an update to your application code that does not involve a database change.

  9. Deploying a Database Update

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    In this tutorial you make a database change and related code changes, test the changes in Visual Studio, then deploy the update to both the test and production environments.

  10. Migrating to SQL Server

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    This tutorial shows you how to upgrade from SQL Server Compact to full SQL Server and discusses why you might do that.

  11. Deploying a SQL Server Database Update

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    This tutorial shows you how to deploy a database update to a full SQL Server database.

  12. Deployment to a Hosting Provider: Troubleshooting

    By Tom Dykstra|November 17, 2011

    In this tutorial you'll see how to use a deployment package to deploy an application update.

ASP.NET MVC Books

Microsoft's Jon Galloway recommends these books for learning ASP.NET MVC:

Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework

Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework

by Adam Freeman, Steven Sanderson

Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

by Jon Galloway, Phil Haack,Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen

Test Drive ASP.NET MVC

Test Drive ASP.NET MVC

by Jonathan McCracken