Umbraco with Articulate Package Deployment issues

I have been playing with Umbraco CMS for a couple of weeks now to setup up my blog website. So far, it is straight forward to author using Visual Studio IDE mixed with Umbraco back office.

However, it’s been bugging me to use Visual Studio’s Publish feature either to Azure or using ftp. Here are some of the issues and my fixes.

1. I am using git as my source control and .gitignore includes /bin folder in addition to some of the default Umbraco’s .gitignore. The issues with that is, Articulate package’s assemblies are directly copied to /bin folder and git ignores them when we commit/push the changes. Therefore, inside packages folder, I created “Articulate” folder which will be ignored by .gitignore.

2. Trying to deploy to Azure complains that it can’t find some of the web.config files. For those files, make sure build type is none instead of conent.
3. Articulate open source has nugget package reference to MarkdownDeep.NET. Therefore, we need the same nugget package in our Umbraco project. The reason is, those assemblies coming with Articulate will be in /bin folder which will be ignored.