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Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects (WDP) Releases to Web

Just some time ago I made an announcement on our team blog about release of WDP 2008... It has been a very exciting journey to reach at this point...

We had received an enormous participation for December 2007 CTP and community had provided us with a lot of interesting feedback... We had to balance out between features and timeline as usual... There are many customers who were not able to move ahead with Visual Studio 2008 installations because of unavailability of WDP 2008 and we did not hold so many folks from using VS 2008 hence releasing early was definitely important...

That said, I think the current version of WDP 2008 is a fine balance of speed to market and features... In fact I think this release has quite a few value added features:

• New Features of Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects are as below... You can read in detail about these features on the post which announced December 2007 CTP of VS 2008 WDP (Click here to go to the December 2007 CTP post)
  • Migration from WDP for VS 2005 to WDP for VS 2008
  • Replacing WDP output only if Pre-Compilation succeeds
  • Creating IIS Applications
  • Using aspnet_merge.exe version which is installed with Visual Studio 2008
• Core WDP Features
  • You can read more about this core features in the VS 2005 WDP white paper on MSDN...
  • A tutorial on Web Deployment Projects can be found at Scottgu's blog...

To find out more about the release visit the link below:

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/01/25/announcing-rtw-of-visual-studio-2008-web-deployment-projects-wdp.aspx

At the end I feel really proud to to call out the efforts of the heros behind WDP, my team members... Alison Lu has done a great job of testing WDP and reproducing every possible scenario that we heard from blogs, forums or connect system... Wendy Wei our dev on WDP got to the bottom of multiple issues that were raised... Bill Hiebert is our Architect and is always the support mechanism of the team... Anna Lidman is our Release Manager and makes our release process so smooth that we practically have forgotten the pains of going to the web... Tim McBride is our Dev lead and John Dundon is our test lead on WDP and have always been great partners to work with...

I hope you enjoy this release of WDP as much as we have enjoyed releasing it and hope it makes your pre-compilation and deployment challenges easier to deal with...

Happy Deploying!!

Web Deployment Projects for VS 2008 Dec 07 CTP Released

Today after more than two months of effort our team released the Dec 07 CTP of Web Deployment Projects (WDP)... We were receiving one or more requests nearly every week since last few months to have WDP out for Orcas so I am sure that this release will enable a tons of web developers to adopt VS 2008 and use the latest and greatest features that come along with...

I have created a blog post on our team blog which talks more about this release... You can click here to view the post (http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/12/01/web-deployment-projects-wdp-for-visual-studio-2008-december-2007-ctp-released.aspx)...

I want to mention that we have a great team in Visual Studio Web Developer... Honestly, the team rocks, often time we never know who make these technologies happen and so to name a few those people are Wendy Wei, Alison Lu, John Dundon, Tim McBride, Bill Hiebert, Anna Lidman, Bradley Millington, Bradley Bartz, Omar Khan and others...  Hope you enjoy the release...

I will keep posting other tips and tricks around WDP on this blog in the weeks to come so do visit once in a while...