Chapter 23. Deployment

In this chapter, we will show how to prepare your application and server for deployment and demonstrate three deployment techniques. We have also included some basic information about IIS, just enough to understand and perform an MVC application deployment. If you want to learn more about IIS, then we recommend looking at the extensive documentation available at www.iis.net.

We recommend you practice deployment using a test application and server before attempting to deploy a real application into a production environment. Like every other aspect of the software development life cycle, the deployment process benefits from testing. We both have horror stories of project teams who have destroyed operational applications through ...

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