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Armchair Bronco
Armchair Bronco

Reputation: 2417

Build tools for automating deployment to Azure?

Are there any Visual Studio or command-line build tools that target deploying to Azure?

My co-founder and I are constantly pushing new bits to both our staging and production servers on Azure, but we also do a lot of work on the localhost Azure sandbox.

Each of these deployments has a different set of connection strings in web.config as well as specific settings for domain names, secret GUIDs and what not.

We're using a manual process to comment and uncomment things in web.config, but this is fraught with danger and is terribly error prone. Sometimes we get the connection string wrong and then our staging server is pointing to the localhost DB or vice versa.

Are there any tools, plugins, command files, or build processes we can use to make this process less error prone? It's as if in addition to a Solution Configuration dropdown with "Debug" and "Retail" we also had a Target Deployment dropdown with entries for "localhost", "Staging Server", and "Production Server".

Upvotes: 0

Views: 378

Answers (1)

astaykov
astaykov

Reputation: 30903

Since SDK 1.4 there is an option for managing Azure configuration. Read more about it from my blog post here. Specifically for web.config, since .NET 3.5 SP1 there is web.config transformations, which are based on build configuration. You can read more about web.config transofmrations here. And if you have a Silverlight application, you can manage the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig in a manner like you manage web.config by following my post here.

Hope all of the provided links will be helpful!

Upvotes: 2

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