在 windows 中编写一个可执行应用程序

Question

I want to write a tool to deploy my application, basically this thing need 2 parts:

1. Delete everything inside a folder except for the web.config file
2. Transfer everything inside a folder into another folder

Right now, in this question I just want to complete the first one, we do manual deployment all the time, therefore I want to enhance my efficiency.

Here is my thought. I have basically two thoughts:

1. Write an application in Visual Studio, maybe in C#, and then enter the folder name, set something in the code where deleting everything except web.config
2. Write a simple script that I can just run it in the cmd, and just execute it.

I prefer the second one, since a script won't be that hard to adjust and is going to be simple as well.

My question is: if I want to write this script, how should I start it? Is like those kind of file you click it and you will have a black window DOS screen and you type in run then all of the content inside those folder will be gone. Can someone gives me a starting point?

Much appreciate!

Answer 1

You could probably make a simple console app to copy everything from your bin folder (Release or Debug) and overwrite the application artifacts (minus the config file). This is essentially what Team City, AzureDevOps, and a number of other DevOps tools do. However, in the background, they use powershell. If your application does not have any services that need to be stopped before replacing your applications artifacts, you could use something like the below. If you need to stop and start services, that is pretty simple as well, assuming you have permissions to do so. This can be compiled into an executable, or saved as a.ps1 file. Either one can be ran from Powershell (Invoke-Item command or right click and run with Powershell), or in command window ( https://www.howtogeek.com/674537/how-to-find-and-open-files-using-command-prompt/ )

# If you need to stop services
Get-Service -Name $serviceName -ComputerName $computerName | Set-Service -Status Stopped;

# Variables
$folder = "C:\CODE\ApplicationFolder\Web\bin\Release"
$webConfig = "WebConfig.exe.config"
$destinationPath = "\\serverName\folderPath\"
$destinationFolder = "Release"

# Zip existing folder and rename for backup
Compress-Archive -Path $destinationPath -DestinationPath $destinationPath\ApplicationArtifacts_Backup_$(Get-Date -Format MMddyyyy).zip | Out-Default

# Get Updated application deployment artifacts
Copy-Item -Path $folder\* -Exclude $webConfig -Destination $destinationPath$destinationFolder -Recurse -Force | Out-Default

# If you need to start services
Get-Service -Name $serviceName -ComputerName $computerName | Set-Service -Status Running;