I´ve tried a couple of different ways to deploy a application to a IIS 7.5 running on my machine for testing purposes and i´ve sort of hit a wall. Nothing works out of the box. Everything assumes I have knowledge I don’t have and would prefer not to have to aqquire.
Google isn’t really helping either with answers ranging from “copy files by hand” to “install teamcity and set it up for CI”. I have set up TeamCity for java projects before and it’s really over kill for my needs at the moment.
So anyone know of a fast, simple and easy way to deploy a application during testing/building?
The short answer is you should be using the Web Deploy packaging from Visual Studio. The long answer requires learning how to use it, but this post and video should help get you started with web deploy.