Saturday, May 14, 2011

Silverlight application deployment - Part 1

The prerequisites are

1. A windows 2003 server with IIS installed(which will act as the silverlight application server)
2. SQL server 2008 installed on the same machine (which will act as the database server). You can choose to have it on another machine, if your database is huge and you need better performance
3. Team foundation server which has the source code of the application to be deployed (This is not mandatory, you can deploy the application from the development machine directly if you do not use TFS for storing source code)

In principle, the following needs to be done when deploying a silverlight application from TFS.

1. Install prerequisites for deploying through TFS
2. Deploy the silverlight application
3. Configuring IIS
4. Database configuration

The above are covered in detail in my upcoming posts.