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

CruiseControl.NET for your ContinuousIntegration solution. For deployment I use an MSBuild project file. At the top of that I keep all of the servers config files. I pass to MSBuild on the through the parameters a server property which tells MSbuild which config values to use and then completes the deployment. The only deployment that cannot be done right from CruiseControl is the one to our live servers. We leave that command line MSBuild just so we don't accidentally push a button, or so someone with access to the CC.NET web dashboard does it just playing around.