The next four tutorials in my Hosting Tutorials on www.asp.net were published over the weekend. These tutorials walk readers through hosting an ASP.NET website with a web host provider and are aimed at beginning to intermediate ASP.NET developers interested in getting a small- to medium-sized ASP.NET application online. The first six hosting tutorials served as an introduction to the series and provided an overview of core concepts. These current four tutorials examine deploying a data-driven web application.
- Deploying a Database [VB | C#] - This tutorial starts by examining how to get a database's schema and contents from the development environment to the production environment.
- Configuring the Production Web Application to Use the Production Database [VB | C#] - It is not uncommon for configuration information to differ between the development and production environments. This tutorial explores ways to configure the production environment to include the appropriate connection string.
- Configuring a Website that Uses Application Services [VB | C#] - ASP.NET version 2.0 introduced a series of application services, which are part of the .NET Framework and serve as a suite of building block services that you can use to add rich functionality to your web application. This tutorial explores how to configure a website in the production environment to use application services (such as Membership, Roles, and Profile).
- Strategies for Database Development and Deployment [VB | C#] - When deploying a data-driven application for the first time you can blindly copy the database in the development environment to the production environment. But performing a blind copy in subsequent deployments will overwrite any data entered into the production database. Instead, deploying a database involves applying the changes made to the development database since the last deployment onto the production database. This tutorial examines these challenges and offers various strategies to assist with chronicling and applying the changes made to the database since the last deployment.
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