Local computer and develoment server

Hi everyone

My web project runs on machine (local host) successfully. I deployed it on development server and I met a lot of troubles. I need your solutions for these

1> What is the best way to maintain my application?
Here what I did and I don't think this is a good way.
Everytime I want to implement my project, I copy files or ftp files from the server back to my machine, fix it on my machine and deploy it back to the server. This is troublesome since application involves a lot of people and some code are hardcoded in the web.config to meet expectations of the path of server. It's really hard for me maintain this large scale web application

2> What I saw on machine does not act exactly what I saw when I run on development server

I have validation checks for textboxes which require user to fill in. It will report an error message and expect user to fill it out before can move next. After everytime, an instruction is satisfied it will update database. When testing on my local machine it does not allow to procceed to the next page if instruction is not satisfied. On my server, it just keeps letting user goes through and ingore all the validation checks

3> I would like to know what is the best way to start learning how to use Web Application Test? I tried to practice on the tool. However I still have no clue how to use it. Any instruction on this would be so helpful for me to stimulate testing scenarios for the project.


Thanks for everyone

1. Personally i would look at using something like source-safe or off-site to manage your code if there is quite a lot of people working on the project. At the moment i'm working on a fairly small project (2-3 people) and i just make sure if anyone wants to work on something they come through me, i then do all compiling/uploading on my machine.

2. I've had trouble with validation checks before, where required field validators wouldn't work on our production server but were fine on my localhost. I got around this my using

VB Code:

if page.isvalid then
    'Do stuff
end if

Around any code that i didn't want runninng unless validation was met.

3. Never used it sorry.

Thanks for your help. How about the validation check. The page.validation I have that too. I don't know why it did not work on both machines.

To my understandings, the OS of web server using for development is 2003 . My OS is win2000. Is it maybe a problem?