Cloud-based Continuous Integration and Delivery for .NET Development

NOTE: The below posts were written in May, 2014. The projects have been updated as of May, 2017 to the latest Microsoft .NET and NuGet package versions, on the release-2.0 branch.

Newer May, 2014 Blog Post: Cloud-based Continuous Integration and Deployment for .NET Development

Original 2011 Blog Post: Consuming Cross-Domain WCF REST Services with jQuery using JSONP

Local Installation and Configuration

• Clone GitHub Repository
• Run command: git clone --branch=release-2.0 https://github.com/garystafford/cross-domain-wcf-rest
• Create Environment Variables used by Publish Profiles
• Change the (3) environment variables values in script Create_EnvironmentVariables.ps1
• Run PS script Create_EnvironmentVariables.ps1
• NOTE: New environment variables won't show up in current shell. You must close and re-open the shell
• Set-up Local Environment
• Create the orders directory, run PS script Create_OrderDirectory.ps1
• Create the website and service directories, run PS script Create_WebDirectories.ps1
• Configure the website and service in IIS, run PS script Configure_IIS.ps1
• Deploy Projects Locally
• Change the $git_repos variable value in script Build_Deploy_Projects_Local.ps1
• Run PS script Build_Deploy_Projects_Local.ps1
• VS Community 2017 MSBuild Path
• MSBuild moved with VS Community 2017 - make sure you are calling VS2017's version of MSBuild from command line
• Use where msbuild from command line to confirm MSBuild's current location
• If not set-up correctly, replace or add msbuild executable path to %PATH% environment variable (i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin)

Setting up AppVeyor

• Settings -> Environment -> Environment variables -> Add AZURE_VM_HOSTNAME, AZURE_VM_USERNAME, and AZURE_VM_PASSWORD
• Settings -> Build -> Build Script -> PS -> '. "PowerShell Setup Scripts\Build_Projects_AppVeyor.ps1"'
• Settings -> Test -> Before test script -> PS -> '. "PowerShell Setup Scripts\Create_OrderDirectory.ps1"'
• Settings -> Deployment -> Deployment Script -> PS -> '. "PowerShell Setup Scripts\Deploy_Projects_Azure_from_AppVeyor.ps1"'
• Note the period (.) in above PowerShell commands.

Setting up Azure VM (locally on VM)

• Create the orders directory, run PS script Create_OrderDirectory.ps1
• Create the website and service directories, run PS script Create_WebDirectories.ps1
• Configure the website and service in IIS, run PS script Configure_IIS.ps1
• Change the variable values in scripts Create_WebDeploy_UserAndGroup.ps1 and Configure_WebDeployUserInIIS.ps1
• Create new Web Deploy non-admin user and group, run PS script Create_WebDeploy_UserAndGroup.ps1
• Configure both projects in IIS to allow web deployments from the above user, run PS script Configure_WebDeployUserInIIS.ps1

Optional - Setting Up Host Server Behind Proxy

• If on network with proxy server, change the primary environment variables in Configure_Env_Git_Run3x.bat
• Run Configure_Env_Git_Run3x.bat 3x's (why? because of nested variables...).

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