The IIS app_offline.htm Deployment Trick
Tired of ERROR_FILE_IN_USE when deploying to IIS? One file stops your app, releases all locks, and shows users a maintenance page.
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Tired of ERROR_FILE_IN_USE when deploying to IIS? One file stops your app, releases all locks, and shows users a maintenance page.
Version numbers in three .csproj files, remembering to create git tags, hoping you didn't fat-finger 0.9.1 as 0.91.
MSDeploy can return success even when your app fails to start. Here's how to add version endpoints and automated verification to catch those ghost...
An AI wrote me a CI workflow. I understood maybe 40% of it. So I went line by line until I understood all of it. Here's what each piece does and why it's there.