Step-By-Step ASP.NET Automated Build/Deploy

Question

Seems like there are so many different ways of automating one\'s build/deployment that it becomes difficult to parse through all the different scenarios that people support

Answer 1

I recently spent a few days working on automating deployments at my company.

We use a combination of CruiseControl, NAnt, MSBuild to generate a release version of the app. Then a separate script uses MSDeploy and XCopy to backup the live site and transfer the new files over.

Our solution is briefly described in an answer to this question Automate Deployment for Web Applications?