Questions tagged [web-deployment-project]

Web Deployment Projects provides developers with advanced compilation options for ASP.NET projects. A Web Deployment Project is an extensible MSBuild script, enabling web developers to create pre-build and post-build actions.

Web Deployment Projects provides developers with advanced compilation options for ASP.NET projects. A Web Deployment Project is an extensible script, enabling web developers to create pre-build and post-build actions.

Web Deployment Projects have been deprecated since Visual Studio 2012, as equivalent functionality is available through the Web Publishing Pipeline ()

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Deploying just HTML, CSS webpage to Tomcat

I am just getting started on developing a website. All I have at the moment is a HTML page supported by a couple of CSS stylesheets. Can I create a WAR file from the HTML and CSS pages? How do I deploy them on to a Tomcat server? Thanks.
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Visual Studio 2010 Web deployment task failed

I am trying to use VS2010's 1-Click Publish feature to deploy a test site from my laptop to my server. I have the firewall turned off on both machines and the MS Deployment Service is up and running on both my laptop and the server. However, when I…
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Reference DLL file not copying to bin with deployment project, causing error

We have several external DLL files being referenced in our Web Application Project. We have a deployment project for installing on the hosting servers. When we were using .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 the DLL files were being copied to the bin…
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Web deploy in Visual Studio 2010 - web management service is missing

I'm setting up a new server on Windows 2008 (x64) with IIS 7.5. I have installed Web Deploy 2.1 from the Web Platform Installer. But the server is missing the Web Management Service, and as a result any web deploy fails with this message: Error 1…
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appSettings vs applicationSettings. appSettings outdated?

I've got some questions about two ways to save settings in the web.config. Appsettings: Look in web.config Usage in…
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Will Web Deployment Projects still be available in Visual Studio 2012?

It looks like Visual Studio 2012 will not include Visual Studio Setup and Deployment Projects according to MSDN, so I'm currently learning WiX. Will this loss of functionality extend to Web Deployment Projects?
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Visual Studio 2010 and Web Deployment Projects (wdproj 2008)

I have several wdprojects (web deployment 2008) in vs2008 solutions. When I installed vs2010 RC none of my wdprojects will open. What can I do to make it work?
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Slow compilation of a ASP.NET Web Deployment Project in Visual Studio 2010

I've migrated a large ASP.NET solution from Visual Studio 2008 (.NET 3.5) to Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0). I also installed the new version of the Web Deployment Project for VS 2010, because the solution also includes a web deployment project…
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Publishing an ASP.NET MVC2 site with Web Deploy

I currently use Web Deploy, http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/346/web-deploy/ to publish my MVC2 app. It used to work well, but now it is got to the point where I can't continue using it: When the MVC app was small and had only a few users it was easy…
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Web Deployment through MSDeploy.exe

I'm configuring a CI build server with Jenkins. After the build steps I'd like to deploy the website. When publishing the the website from VisualStudio I published by Web Deploy. I like that method because it actually publish those file which have…
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How do I compile an ASP.NET website into a single DLL file?

I have finally finished my web site. I published it, and I was surprised at the results. Although the App_Code compiled into a single DLL file, every page's code behind compiled into its own DLL file. How do I make it so that it is one DLL…
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Git vs FTP for web deployment

I know what git is for and how to use it, (a little bit) but there is one concept I still don’t fully understand. I have heard a lot of web developers lately saying that they use git for every web project even though they are not collaborating,…
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in precompiled asp.net website - Does it matter?

I'm deploying a precompiled and all-page-merged website using Web Deployment Projects on Visual Studio 2008. Note that all assemblies and projects have been compiled in Release mode. All my pages are pre-compiled in release mode. So they wont be…
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ASP.NET corrupt assembly "Could not load file or assembly App_Web_*"

I've read through many of the other questions posted on the same issue, but I still do not understand the cause and how to prevent it from happening. In my case, this happens on the production server. I get the same error that has been described in…
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ASP.NET Web Deployment Projects: getting rid of .compiled files

I'm using a Web Deployment Project in Visual Studio 2008 in order to prepare my ASP.NET application (ASP.NET web application, not ASP.NET web site) for being copied to several servers. I have to copy the files on local staging servers, on different…
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