Exam Ref 70-487: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services

Chapter summary

• Web Deploy is the most feature-rich deployment option that you have for your web applications. Web Deployment packages can contain your web application and other configuration data such as registry settings or assemblies that should be deployed to the GAC.

• When deploying to Windows Azure, you need to take into account that Windows Azure is a web farm. You should think about your session data, but also about your update mechanism. When updating your application, you can use an in-place upgrade, or delete and redeploy in combination with a VIP Swap.

• For configuration changes during deployment (such as connection strings or WCF configuration settings), you can use web.config transformations or parameterization.

• Using NuGet, which is ...