Automatic Deployment Resources

Question

I know enough to know that we need to get our application to deploy with a single user action. However, I don\'t know:

1. What are some good tools to

Answer 1

Visual Build Pro from Kinook is a pretty good tool for one-click deployment. It's easy to use and has a lot of capabilities. I have been using it for years. Of course there's also NAnt, which I haven't used much.

As far as managing config changes, I manage multiple config files with extensions that indicate the deployment environment, and then just do a simple rename as a step within my build script.

For example, if I am deploying to Test, I might have a config file called Web.test.config, which gets automatically renamed to Web.config by the build script.