Question

Currently, I’m maintaining an older ASP.NET website. In the solution, there exists 5 C# projects which build to assemblies as well as the development server’s web directory. Normally, I do whatever work needs to be done (adding pages, making changes to existing projects, etc), build the projects (the current output path is my development server’s wwwroot\bin\ directory) and if all is well, I open Windows Explorer and drag either .aspx or .dll files from the dev server to the production server. It’s that last step that I’m wondering if there is a better way of doing. Does anyone have a different way of doing things where you don’t have to leave Visual Studio to push updates?

Answer 1

You should add a Web Deployment Project, that´s (in my opinion) the easiest/best way to deploy a Asp.net app

Here´s an interesting article from the MSDN Magazine. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163448.aspx