Deploying an Application

In the sections that follow, I’ll show you different techniques to deploy an ASP.NET application to IIS. All of these techniques create the same result, but the degree of automation varies significantly.

images Note Before starting any of these deployment techniques, make sure you have selected the desired build configuration, either using the drop-down menu shown in Figure 33-3 or using the Configuration Manager, which can be opened from the Build menu.

Deploying an Application by Copying Files

The most basic way to deploy an application is to copy the required files from our development machine to the target directory on ...

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