Thread: custom deployment method?

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03-26-2009, 6:18 PM

heph
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custom deployment method?

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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.

03-26-2009, 7:48 PM In reply to

SuperTramp
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Re: custom deployment method?

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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)