I took on a project that was developed by another developer. The client needs a few alterations made to the site so I got the source code and found out it was developed as an ASP.NET Website project (not web application). Looking at the FTP site, each code behind file is complied down to its dll in the bin folder.
I opened up the web site using Web Developer 2012 Express, made the alterations and even successfully debugged the application and everything looks good. The problem is I can not figure out how to publish it! When I build the web site no dlls are generated in the directory structure of the application. Further, there is not Build menu and thus no Build > Publish option to publish the website.
I've build and deployed major applications using APS.NET MVC but I can't for the life of me figure out how to deploy this simple website project as no dlls are being created.
How does one publish or deploy a website project with no Build > Publish option and no dlls created when Building?
I think it's a visual studio express thing. I don't have the build menu here at home on express but at work it shows up fine on projects.
Have you tried right-clicking on the site in Solution Explorer and observing any possible Publish Site options there?
Failing that, you might try copying the files directly to the site's root folder on the webserver.
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I've created a blank solution in VS2019. Using the option "add existing web site" I've added a website to the solution which was built in VS2010. Normally, after that, I was used to add a Web Deployment Project to the solution, to compile all the code in one dll, and upload the result to the web server.
But this kind of project does not seem to be compatible anymore with the newer versions of VS.
Is there any way to get a similar compiled result in VS2019?
I found an alternative.
It is to convert the [asp.net web site] to an [asp.net application]. The asp.net application has a publish feature, which can be used to generate an output folder with the compiled application inside, with the aspx pages and a single dll.
I suggest to follow the steps described here to convert the asp.net web site to asp.net application:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/aa983476(v=vs.140)
I have created a web setup in visual studio 2013. When I install it, only the bin folder is created in IIS, hence I cannot browse my website. Help please.
I have added the Primary Output in the Web Application folder in my setup.
Your question is too confusing. Are you uploading your files on to the web server? Or are you trying to setup your visual studio for debugging, test, editing and coding purposes?
If you are trying to run Visual Studio locally, IIS is setup for you automatically.
If you are trying to setup files to a webserver, try to talk to the live support. Sometimes, we, users, dont have full control or lack of knowledge debugging it on the dedicated server.
Other thing to consider is reinstalling your visual studio carefully.
I have a solution with multiple class libraries and a website (not a web application) in framework 3.5 VS 2008.
I would like to create a script/batch file to automate the publishing of the website to a given folder location(not to IIS).
I tried googling regarding this but everywhere they are refering to a .csproj file for the website. In my solution I do not have any such file for the website.
I do not want to use any add ons / other tools for automated builds right now.
Please suggest an approach using MSBuild or any other inbuilt asp.net tool.
I have been trying to use WebDeploy in Visual Studio 2010 to deploy our Web Application but it deploy the whole code as it is. Is there an option somewhere like before "Allow this site to be updateable" for WebDeploy?
EDIT:
Ok, there is no option available for Web Application and only for Web Site projects.
For Web Application projects, you could add a Web Deployment project which helps you getting a precompiled version, but it doesnt automatically publish it to IIS. Any way to automate that?
Thanks
u can use the options in the publish website as to get 1. make my site upgradeable 2.make different assembly file for each page 3.pre compiled version when you right click your web app and publish it. Hope i got it right
I am just getting started with Silverlight and have recently added a Silverlight project to an established solution. In this particular scenario my solution included an existing ASP.NET web site (not application) which Visual Studio kindly offered to integrated my Silverlight application into, which I accepted.
So everything is fine and all, and the Silverlight XAP is being copied to the web site's ClientBin directory. Now I have decided to start a new ASP.NET MVC web application that will eventually replace the older (non-MVC) web site. But I cannot for the life of me figure out what Visual Studio modified to get the XAP to automatically appear in the web site's ClientBin on build, so that I can reproduce that on my MVC site.
So my question is essentially, what are the manually steps for getting Visual Studio to autocopy a Silverlight application's XAP to a newly added ASP.NET MVC web application?
You can do this through the properties of your web project. The Silverlight tools for visual studio add a new tab to the properties of web projects named "Silverlight Links".
Add a reference to your Silverlight project here, with the folder where you want it, and visual studio will make the copy for you.
The copying of the XAP to the ClientBin is a MSBuild task. If you're using a standard ASP.NET project template it can be found under the Silverlight Link section.
For everything else you might be able to figure out the name of the MSBuild task and add it to your ASP.NET MVC project. The easier solution would probably be to use a custom post-build event on the APS.NET project to copy the file.
There is no "magic" happening, oter than copying the XAP file from the BIN directory of your Silverlight project to the ClientBin of your web application. It doesn't even have to live inside the ClientBin directory - you can copy it to any directory, or the root of your site.
Update: The recently released Beta 1 of ASP.NET MVC includes support for Silverlight projects, so you can link it to your ASP.NET MVC application the same way you do for regular ASP.NET applications.
Go to the property pages of your Silverlight application, Choose Build Events Tab, Enter following line in Post-Build events command line:
copy $(TargetDir)*.xap $(SolutionDir)<youar web solution folder name such as app.web>\ClientBin
Now onwards, on each successful build, the xap file will be copied automatically.
This is a somewhat older post so it probably has changed... in my Visual Studio under the web project there is a tab called "Silverlight Applications". There is an add button there for existing projects that you import into the solution and you can add them and choose to place the xap in the ClientBin or anywhere else. Not sure if you have to have the SDK installed to have this tab. I have it installed so you may have to. I don't do MVC, so it may be different for MVC projects, I don't know.