Michael James - Developer

Recently I have been developing a fair size application and so far everything seemed to be "just working" fine. However during testing I noticed a few times the app seemed to stall up. This left me quite unhappy and I knew it was time to relook at some of my "decisions". Initial glances through the code didn't really highlight anything so I thought it about time to profile the application and see what it can find. In the past I have used Redgate's Ants Profiler and an early version of Telerik's JustTrace. I decided to give Telerik's JustTrace a go again as I have heard alot about it and wanted to see how it's changed / grown. Alas, my initial attempt to use JustTrace ended quite abruptly, I've been developing on Windows 8 and VS2012 exclusively for about 5 months now and sadly JustTrace didn't support IIS8 or IIS Express 8. I was gutted to find this out but a quick chat to the Telerik Dev Team and Chris Eargle gave me hope as they

Deploying Websites and Web Applications has changed massively over the years, I have seen the likes of FTP, Copy & Paste over RDP (why!!) etc but there has always been a degree of, did I copy the correct files, did I miss any, did I upload the correct client config etc. Since VS2010 I have been a big fan of always publishing my applications to either a local folder and then upload or directly to the server, depending on the setup. One thing I have always struggled with is publishing files that aren't part of my project, and ensuring the correct client config settings are uploaded. Now I'm running VS2012 full time I decided it was time to put to bed these issues and ensure I could use one click, or as near to one as possible, to deploy stage configurations of my applications as well as live. VS2012 has tweaked publishing again, it now includes a much fuller publish model, with WebDeploy amongst the usual FTP, FileSystem etc. The Package / Publish process is just an ext