We’ve finally reached the end of this tutorial series, and the final step is to now publish the blog we’ve developed onto a production environment. Web Matrix uses the Web Deploy functionality (located at C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V2\msdeploy.exe) to deploy web sites locally or remotely.
There is an error with the way Microsoft’s Web Deploy 2.1 application creates command line packages from Visual Studio 2010. If you create a package to publish and then try to run the msdeploy.exe command line publishing tool it on a production server running IIS then you may receive the following error: ERROR: The system [...]
I’m pleased to announce the launch of my latest ASP.NET project, Our Honeymoon Registry.
Our Honeymoon Registry is an online wedding gift registry service that allows couples to specify items from their upcoming honeymoon as gifts in a registry for their family and friends to choose in lieu of traditional wedding presents.
The recently released Amazon Kindle Fire is a great 7-inch tablet that admirably serves as a low cost consumption device for Amazon content. Invariably however, reviewers are making the comparison between the Kindle Fire and the Apple iPad, despite the two devices targeting different market segments and uses.
This post is the first part in a series on Microsoft WebMatrix which will show you how to create a simple blog site. The tutorial is broken into multiple parts which demonstrate some of the new functionality that Microsoft introduced with WebMatrix, and how it relates to traditional ASP.NET Webforms or MVC programming.
SQL Server 2008 Express edition with Tools has finally been released (It was launched on August 11th, but only today are the management tools available). As I’ve been building web servers today, I’ve put together this comprehensive guide to setting up your website to work with SQL Server 2008.
