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    <h2>The original question:</h2> <p>The title of this question might be a bit clumsily phrased, but here's the situation:</p> <p>I have a .NET web project deployed on my server. It's still in beta, so there's a lot of releasing and re-releasing happening. </p> <p>I have also written a C# executable in the same VS solution (call it "admin.exe") that runs in the background on the server, periodically performing certain business rule integrity checks and making appropriate insertions to a warning table in the DB.</p> <p>Question is: what's the best way to deploy this app so that it gets updated whenever I make a new release? It should be running all the time in between releases, so ideally I'd like some sort of setup whereby the shutdown-deploy-startup process involves the minimum possible number of steps.</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <h2>Edit - Bounty started</h2> <p>The answers given thus far have been helpful and interesting, but haven't provided me with a clear, concise and elegant solution. Please do not assume I have extensive knowledge of deployment projects, because I don't. Bounty goes to the person who can provide a solution that does the following:</p> <ol> <li>Publish the latest version of the web site;</li> <li>Shut down any instances of admin.exe that are running on the server;</li> <li>Update admin.exe;</li> <li>Launch admin.exe;</li> <li>All of the above should be done preferably in one step, or as few steps as possible, seeing as it will be done repeatedly throughout the life of the product; and</li> <li>All of the above should be done preferably without requiring installation of any 3rd party software.</li> </ol> <p>Thank you for your help!</p> <p><strong>Minor edit - clarification</strong></p> <p>I think a lot of the solutions offered thus far have overestimated the complexity of the problem, so let me clarify: everything that is to be deployed, only has to be deployed on <strong>one</strong> computer, which also happily has Visual Studio available with all source code. I only need to (1) publish the web site to the web folder, and (2) shut down, reinstall and restart admin.exe on the same server. Isn't there a simple way of doing this in one step? Can it be done with a VS Deployment project?</p>
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    1. COShaul - the fact you needed to make several clarifications tells me that your question lacks some context, or at least, some specific customer requirements. For ex. if you wanted to perform this from Visual Studio, you may use Post-build events. Or write custom MSBuild steps. Or just write a script to carry out steps 1-6 above. If this doesn't suffice, then there may be some hidden requirement is not be made explicit, that's my guess. Good luck.
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    2. COYou should clarify whether or not your admin.exe is a Windows service. It makes a difference for how it can be stopped and restarted.
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    3. COJacob - it's not a windows service now, but if it makes it any easier, it can be...
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