TeamCity CI DEPLOYMENTS TO IIS VIA MS WEB DEPLOY 2.0

Now that I have my source code being checked into GitHub and have TeamCity doing automatic builds (and running tests), I thought it was about time to take the last big step and automatically deploy the latest version of an application to a live site (either for testing or just straight to production, it's up to you) whenever...

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Introducing Testing Domain - localtest.me

Save this URL, memorize it, write it on a sticky note, tweet it, tell your colleagues about it!  localtest.me (http://localtest.me) and*.localtest.me (http://something.localtest.me) If you do any testing on your local system you've probably created hosts file entries (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) for different testing domains and had them point back to 127.0.0.1.  This works great but it requires just a...

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.NET 4.0 and IIS 6 Deployment problem

Server: Windows 2003 bit IIS6 Steps I had to take are as follows: Install framework 4.0 on the computer (this was already done a while back) within IIS, go to "web service extensions" and ensure that .NET 4.0 has been added and is allowed (not prohibited) used plesk to move the site in question into its own application pool. This is important apparently as it can confuse IIS if you try to have websites targeting different framework version in the...

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