Deployment

One of the more challenging situations we encounter (in our very small shop) is deploying new versions of software smoothly. I hear a lot about one-click deployment, build automation, and continuous integration, but I'd like to learn more.

Perhaps one or more of the following topics could be discussed:

• Package management (OK, maybe the NuGet answer covers this)
• Build servers/build automation
• Configuration file/connection string management
• One-click deployment
• Database versioning/upgrading to newer schema/downgrading to older schema