How to develop app in Visual Studio and then deploy apps to Linux machine (OS – Ubuntu, web server – Nginx). Can any explain the steps, it will be a great help
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How to develop app in Visual Studio and then deploy apps to Linux machine (OS – Ubuntu, web server – Nginx). Can any explain the steps, it will be a great help
I would say that there are three ways how you can develop apps for Linux using mono.
First is using only Visual Studio for development and from time to time deploy your app to Linux to see potential issues. I personally use this scenario because it’s simple and when you are not messing with MS specific stuff or yet fully unsupported things then you shouldn’t have problems (at least I didn’t so far). Disadvantage is that you will discover mono specific problems only during runtime on Linux machine.
Second approach is using Visual Studio with Mono Tools. I tested it when it was in beta and it was sometimes quite handy (you will move the phase of discovering mono specific problems to your dev environment, however you can still have some certain issues on Linux machine), but since this tool doesn’t support debugging for now I don’t use it personally.
Third approach is to use only MonoDevelop on Linux (since debugging is now supported only in Linux). With 2.2 release this IDE becomes really good and suitable for development however I have tested only console and basic ASP.NET MVC apps so I can’t tell you if it’s ready for bigger projects.
Deployment to Linux is quite easy – I just installed proftpd on Linux machine, configured it and copied project there from Windows machine.