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‰ Professional LINQ (ISBN: 978-0-470-04181-9)
‰ Professional Microsoft IIS 8 (ISBN: 978-1-118-38804-4)
Of course, the web is also a good place for more information. The following URLs may be helpful
in your search for more information about ASP.NET and its related technologies:
‰ http://p2p.wrox.com — The public discussion forum from Wrox where you can go for all
your programming-related questions. This book has its own category on that site, enabling
you to ask targeted questions. I am a frequent visitor to these forums and I’ll do my best to
answer each question you may have about this book.
‰ http://imar.spaanjaars.com — My own website where I keep you up to date about various
web programming–related topics.
‰ http://www.asp.net — The Microsoft community site for ASP.NET technology. Go here
for news on ASP.NET, additional downloads, and tutorials.
‰ http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net — The official home for ASP.NET at the Microsoft
developers website that gives you a wealth of information on ASP.NET.
SUMMARY
Obviously, deployment is an important action at the end of the development cycle of your new
website. However, it’s unlikely that you deploy your site only once. As soon as you release the first
version of your site, you’ll think of other new and cool features you want to add, making the development
of your site a continuous process. To accommodate for this, you need to make your site easy
to deploy.
One way to do this is by moving hard-coded configuration settings to the Web.config file, giving
you a single location to change parameters for the site in your development and production
environments.
When you’re ready to roll out your site, it’s a good idea to create a copy of your site and clean that
up before you send the files to your target server. Copying and then publishing a site is a breeze with
the Copy Web Site and Publish Web Site commands.
Because you will deploy your site against IIS, you need to understand some important settings of
this web server. In this chapter, you saw how to configure the Default Web Site and make some configuration
changes. Because of the way security works in Windows and IIS, you also need to configure
your hard drive so that the accounts used by the web server can read the files in your site, and
write to specific folders such as App_Data and GigPics.
EXERCISES
This chapter has no exercises, because the Planet Wrox site is now completely finished. However,
your biggest challenge starts now: building websites with the knowledge you gained from this book.
If you ever build a site with the information from this book and want to share it with me, please
contact me through my website at http://imar.spaanjaars.com. Have fun!