Hi,
Daniela said:
To deploy a simple web application what type of files do I need to copy
over?
I want to use a simple copy.
Thanks
It depends (damn ;-)
There are 3 deployment models in ASP.NET 2.0:
- You can deploy the ASPX files and the corresponding code-behind files
(CS, VB.NET, ...) to the web server. The classes will be compiled on
demand. This is OK for websites where the content changes often, or for
testing purposes. However, some people dislike deploying the source
files to the web server.
- To avoid deploying the source files, you can publish your website. To
do this, use the corresponding menu in VS2005. This will precompile your
site and copy only the files needed to a folder of your choice (or even
diretly to the web server using FTP for example).
- If you use the Web Application Project template (available in VS2005
SP1 or from here
http://webproject.scottgu.com/) then a DLL will be
created in the "bin" folder. You can copy the ASPX files and the "bin"
folder to the website.
Additionally to this, you of course need to copy all the resource files
(images, script, css...) to the website too.
HTH,
Laurent
