While developers who program WCF and WF services for Windows Server AppFabric spend most of their time writing and testing the code that will become an application within Visual Studio, the application must eventually be deployed and managed.
While manually deploying and managing an application on a single server is not without challenges, doing so on a distributed farm is simply untenable. In addition to ensuring that mistakes are not made in copying the necessary files and assemblies, configuration changes such as enabling metadata and setting throttling thresholds at the application or service level and setting tracking profiles based on the needs for different levels of information manually can be cumbersome and error prone.
In the Application deployment on the farm recipe of this chapter, I cover how to use the Microsoft Web Deployment tool (Web Deploy) to streamline the application packaging and deployment process, simplifying the deployment experience...