The product seems to work well for just about every thing that we need. It would be nice to be able to deploy a web site to a server on a differnt domain then the deveplopment and test boxes, when trying to deploy sites for external clients. Right now I am creating a zip file and then copying it over to the server. Let me know if there is another method that would work better to accomplish this.
thanks
Deployment is a major feature that we will be working on later this year. We’re certainly open to suggestions.
Right now we use FinalBuilder for all our deployments and although the script is fairly complex all we ultimately do is the following..
Some of the things it does now.
1. Copy files from a staging directory to a specified directory.
2. Run a program we wrote to create a XML File with the CRC and Version information of files copied. (which tells people we have a new version to download)
(This used to be FB Script but it took ~10 min to run and when written in Delphi it takes ~2 minutes)
3. We also stop services, copy in new EXE files and restart services.
Can be done using MSbuild action itself:
more details : <a href="http://wiki.finalbuilder.com/display/continua/Part+4%3A+Deploy+Your+Web+App#Part4