Selecting a Target
The publishing process is driven by a profile. This is a collection of settings that define the parameters of the deployment target. You can either create your own profile (as you would if you were publishing to an internal web server, to your own development machine, or to a corporate IT/enterprise asset), or you can use a profile bundled with Visual Studio (such as Windows Azure) or provided by a third party (as would be the case if you were publishing your web application to a third-party hosting provider).
On this first page of the Publish tool, we have an option to publish to Windows Azure (which we’ll cover in-depth in Chapter 12). If you are using a third-party hosting provider, and that provider has a profile file available, ...
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