handling .net web applications with CI /CD using T

Question

I need some information on handling .net web applications with CI /CD using TFS 2018 (TFVC).I am using .NET core build template, my doubts are: 1) do we need to pass MS Build Parameter to trigger Web Deploy? 2) do we need to create a release pipeline in release definition and use some tool available to deploy web app and configure IIS settings?

Please let me know a method, i am confused.

Answer 1

You don't need to pass other parameters. The default parameters should be :

/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:DesktopBuildPackageLocation="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\WebApp.zip" /p:DeployIisAppPath="Default Web Site"

Yes, you need to create a release pipeline to deploy the web app using the IIS Website Deployment task, if no such a task, then you can install the extension IIS Web App Deployment Using WinRM and use WinRM - IIS Web App Deployment task to do that.

Please see below articles for details.

• Deploy your ASP.NET Core app to a Windows virtual machine
• Deploy your Web Deploy package to IIS servers using WinRM
• Deploy to a Windows Virtual Machine
• Building an ASP.NET Core Web App in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)