Web Deployment Tool (MS Deploy)

Re: custom deployment method?

kateroh — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:35:19 GMT

And here is an article on how to write a batch file provider with code and explanations. Based on RC version of MSDeploy.

Re: custom deployment method?

yaminij — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:08:30 GMT

Please take a look at http://blogs.iis.net/msdeploy/archive/2009/03/30/msdeploy-sample-custom-provider-to-sync-mysql-databases-dbfullmysql.aspx on how to extend msdeploy using the RC version

Re: custom deployment method?

heph — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:57:14 GMT

excellent! thank you for the info.

Re: custom deployment method?

SuperTramp — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:48:45 GMT

As of version 1, the API is public. There are two parts of the API.

1) The consumer side which is basically the side that MSDEPLOY.EXE, our UI, Web Platform Installer, etc. use.

2) The provdier side which allows people to write providers (like dirPath, setAcl, appHostConfig, etc). This is the side that you could extend to write a "remote batch/command execution" provider.

In the next few weeks, some folks will be posting samples to show how to write a provider.

That's a long winded way to say "yes, you'll be able to extend MSDEPLOY to do this, and you can do it today."

(BTW, the team has been considering writing such a provider as you describe)

custom deployment method?

heph — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:18:45 GMT

Are there any plans to allow custom providers or methods in version 1 of msdeploy? In my environment, I would like to be able to run either batch files or commands to stop or start iis and/or stop or start services both before and after a deployment. It looks like a custom Method would most likely do the trick but I cannot find any guidance on how to do this or if it is even possible.

Any help would be appreciated.