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I have an asp mvc project. I’m wondering, what’s the difference between building the solution and then copying bin and all other views/scripts/images/style sheets and publishing (besides the obvious work of copying files). I’m asking because i want to automate my deployment with rake and I can’t use web deployment because it’s not compatible with mono.
Depending on your version of Visual Studio and settings, Publishing typically does two main things in addition to the build
Packages the solution
— usually into some standard format (WebDeploy, Web Project)
Automates deployment
— typically hooks something like MSdeploy (“web deploy”) to synchronize the site with a local or remote IIS setting
So in terms of what you are deploying, there is no difference. The build and output files are the same. Publishing is simply allowing a developer a simple path of packaging + deploy, which you are handling with rake.