How can we publish an asp.net site using Visual Studio 2008?

Question

I created an asp.net site with VS2008, how can I publish it to VS2008? PS:
I used Right Click -> publish , but I used the database in my project, but VS2008 does not publish it.

PS: I am using SQL Express 2008

Answer 1

Try the webdeployment project for VS2008, which should provide you with what you want: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyId=0AA30AE8-C73B-4BDD-BB1B-FE697256C459&displaylang=en

hope that helps

Answer 2

Click on Build above, then select Publish xxx, where xxx is your project name. Then the published web form will appear. There you can check all the project files that should be published.

Answer 3

right click> publish

Answer 4

I would suggest that this is a "design limitation".

1) As a rule, it is not required to destroy all data entered by users in the environment when changing the code.

2) Xcopy files from the database do not work, because the file is blocked by applications that use it.

Do you also intend to publish the data?

If you want to publish only changes to the database (Updated tables / sprocs NOT data). SQL scripts must be generated / run against the target database.

EDIT - add what you can do:

You cannot use the VS.NET publish function.

If you want to click data. Stop IIS (or the IIS logical object for clauses -Application / app pool). Copy mdf from destination to destination server.

If you DO NOT want to push data (Just Schema). During the loop, dev generates any scripts for: adding data (i.e., search data) table / Sproc / indexes. Be careful that the scripts are in the correct order.

Pre-deployment. Get a copy of your target dastabase database. Testing SQL Scripts

For deployment: Stop IIS (or IIS logical object for clusters -Application / app pool). Encourage code changes as you use the Publish feature.
Backing up the database of target environments. Connect to the target database and update the schema using scripts. Restart IIS

Deploying this can be automated if you are willing to spend time developing the necessary scripts and building a process around it.

As others have mentioned, VSDE 2010 webdeploy (msdeploy) tries to make this a lot easier. I myself have not used these features.

Good luck.

Answer 5

This is a big advantage of using Visual Studio 2010,

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/29/vs-2010-web-deployment.aspx

Therefore, if you want, you can use Visual Web Developer 2010 Express if you cannot afford the top editions.