My group uses NAnt to deploy our ASP.NET web application to
our three environments, dev, int, and prod. After our build script builds
the necessary executables, we have targets that copy the appropriate files out
to the web servers. In fact we even have targets that restore and upgrade
our databases as well.
What did the Microsoft guy say that prevented you from
doing this? What did you realize that didn't make it so
easy?
Creating targets in the build script to do all the copying
and deleting is laborious at first, but now that we have it done, deployment is
a breeze. Things are truly a one click build.
The only issues that we have seen is that at times dlls can
be locked which prevents them from being copied onto the server. We either
find the executable that is running and shut it down first (in the build script
of course) or just try the build again. Whatever was locking the file
isn't anymore, the second time. Not the most elegant solution, but it
works.
Jason
From: Eric Fetzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 12:12 PM
To: Nant Users
Subject: [Nant-users] Deployment
Any advice on deployment? I have NAnt doing builds for me, compiling
about 25 projects. There are 2 separate boxes being deployed to. One
side is the web side and the other batch. So I have a master build file
calling 2 other build files and then the Master does a copy to a staging
area. Originally I was thinking I could just take all of the resulting
files (.exe, .dll, .as?x...) to the appropriate directory on the system to be
run on. Well, I realized that it's not that easy (go figure). The
Microsoft guy is telling me that it would be best to maintain setup projects
created using Visual Studio. I was hoping to automate the deployment so
that it wouldn't be necessary to always keep these sync'd up with their
corresponding project files, the master solution... Seems like a lot of
redundancy going on and possibilities of losing synchronicity. I would
appreciate any tidbits of wisdom you could give. Thanks - Eric
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