The company I work for has used Dreamweaver CS4 in the past, but we are transitioning to Visual Studio 2013. This is new to me.
In Dreamweaver we would work locally and do edits then when everything was functioning correctly we would manually push an upload arrow to put it on the live site.
In Visual Studio 2013 I notice when we save our edits it automatically saves it directly to the live site.
How can I configure Visual Studio 2013 so that when I work on our clients websites I can first do it locally to be sure everything works fine. Then when everything is functioning I could manually upload to the live site like we did in Dreamweaver.
Thanks for any help. A walkthrough would be best since we don't know Visual Studio very well.
Thank you.
I think you are using the live editing with VS2013. If you using VS2013 just as an HTML editor then its an overkill. VS2013 comes with a publishing wizard where you can setup the publish settings and publish your changes to the remote server.
In most cases remote editing is not good, but for minor cosmetic changes you can use live edit.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465337(v=vs.110).aspx
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Using Visual Studio and Chrome I have recently started debugging a website at http://localhost:50481 in a project created with the ASP.NET empty website project template. About the same time I noticed that my desktop banking website was running very slowly. In fact the whole https://www.targobank.de/de/index.html web site runs very slowly using Chrome. All other websites are fine. In MS-Edge the targobank site runs fine (sometimes). I believe that the Visual Studio setup is somehow slowing Chrome at my German bank!
Does anybody know why this might be happening? Perhaps other users with similar VS configurations could try the website.
Here is some more detail on my VS setup. In order to use the ASP.NET empty website project template I had to install "Additional project templates (previous ver..)" as shown below and as recommended on the excellent stackoverflow.
Use the ASP.NET empty website project template thus
and then debug my Javascript in Chrome using a website at http://localhost:50481.
I used to use MS Visual Web Development (VWD) Express 2008 as IDE for a website which was developed on .NET framework 2.5 with VB.NET and runs on IIS 7 originally. About a year ago, MS stopped downloading the VWD Express 2008 and now I am in need of an IDE for my old VB.NET website. Which IDE will allow me to maintain this old VB.NET website?
Here is the detail info of VS 2019 community installed:
Here is screen shot of the existing project I am maintaining.
You can go with Visual Studio Express.
(edit: It is now called Visual Studio Community Edition).
It should work fine. To be honest, I never used Visual Web Developer.
Just keep in mind, that you want to open the project as a web site, and NOT a project. Quite sure that's how VW developer worked and was setup.
I'm not even sure they have VW developer anymore, but Visual Studio Express 2019 should be able to open + work on that web site.
So, to open a web application project, then you use this option:
(this means you have a .sln file).
So this:
However, this might ONLY be a web site project. So, you can use this option:
So, I would certinly try to open the project (folder) where the site exists, and see if you can find a .sln file.
If there is no .sln file, then you can try to open the .vbproj file.
But if you open a "web site", then you ONLY select the folder where the web site exists. (you don't open .sln, or .vbproj file - but open the FOLDER.
VS 2017 is the last one that explicitly mention supports for .NET 3.5, and the Community version is still available with the free Dev Essentials account. If you're ineligible for Community, then the Visual Studio Express 2015 for Web is the one you want.
That said, even in the latest VS 2022, I still see the option to switch a project to target .NET 3.5, and the template still offers Web Form development.
I'm starting to work with Phonegap and I've installed Visual Studio with Apache Cordova Tools.
I can create new Cordova project and change the project files. I can save the files it works well untill I run the project in debugger. After I stop the debugger and edit the project files every save takes about a minute - extremely slow.
I've downloaded an excample project form Microsoft site and I see the same problem with files save.
Does anybody familiar with the problem? Maybe I have to chang something in the Visual Studio configuration?
Try turning off ripple. That seemed to help me
I am responsible for supporting a relatively complex Website project written with .NET 3.5.
Previously I was using Web Deployment Project with Visual Studio 2010 to deploy this website but at the moment I have only access to Visual Studio 2013.
As far as I know, there is no longer such a tool to be used for deployment in Visual Studio 2013 and I do want to compile the code before deploying to the production server. As mentioned earlier, the project is a bit complex and this would not be easy to be converted to a Web Application.
Any idea?
Unless I missed it, unsure what the issue is - in VS2013, Publish is what you are looking for (either WebSite or Application).
What exactly do you mean by "none of the (vs 2013 publish) options worked"? What is/was the issue?
In one of your comments, you state you want to "pre-compile" (aka "don't want to upload .cs source files) and that's a setting in Publish.
You can Publish to your local file system: "Custom" -> File System:
This extension still exists for Visual Studio 2013: http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/web-deploy
Little bit confused with the question because you are keep referring about website rather web application.
If you are looking to convert web site to web app then you need to follow this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/aa983476(v=vs.100).aspx
Otherwise, if you are referring about the deployment project. Yes, it is no longer available.
I'd a very similar situation like you and Since 2013 I have stopped using any deployment project, instead I have started using Publish that creates a deployment package for you on a Network , FTP, Local Drive or even on Azure.
Here is a nice guide from Microsoft
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465323(v=vs.110).aspx
If you still want to go for Deployment Project, then you would need to go for "Installshield" limited edition,which is free (http://samirvaidya.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/how-to-enable-installshield-le-for.html).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2kt85ked(v=vs.110).aspx
I have published my website using VS2010 and then selected FTP Site.
Problem is that it does not show me update status. and takes too much time as compare to other FTP client.
Is there any way or plugin for visual studio 2010 so i can build and directly publish that on FTP server.
Are you using Website|Copy Website? I think the reason it is slower because it compares files on both sides to determine which files are newer.
How often do you have to do that. It's a little slow, but seems to work okay for me.