Can you recommend resources to learn msdeploy? Books, blogs or other formats welcome.
Bonus points will be awarded for information focused at deploying to IIS 6 and inserting the SVN revision number into the packaged files.
There is lots of reference documentation for command line use of the Web Deploy tool on TechNet. For practical how-to’s IIS.NET is the place to go.
Unfortunately, there's very little documentation on how to customize the deployment package during from the build. So, I've posted an article on my blog about my own findings while preping a project for deployment with Web Deploy recently.
It contains links to other articles as well as how to implement common deployment requirements, including some handling of version / build numbers.