Publish as website?

Hi Folks,

I just finished creating a windows application using vb.net 2010 and it works just fine, went ahead and published an executable and that works fine too. I noticed that in the 'Publish Wizard' is an option to publish to a website. I figured I would like to try to do this with this working app just to see how that works ... well I am stuck. I went ahead and installed IIS7 on a windows 7 box and using the IIS7 manager console verified the site, 'localhost' is running and can access it from a browser on the same machine without error (you know, the little IIS7 splash screen that comes up when IIS7 is running).

Well now I went ahead and attempted to 'publish' this app as a website, for 'specify the location ...' I just put http://localhost/ and it errors out on the publish build stating: "failed to connect to 'http://localhost/' with the following error:Unable to create the Wes sit 'http://localhost'. The Web server 'http://localhost' could not be found."

Is there an easy way to do this or a cheat sheet about it? Not sure what I am going wrong as the 'localhost' does work. I am just messing around with this now, but would like to get it to work as taking baby steps to perhaps make the same app that is now stand alone on a web server accessible from other machines permitting to do so.

Also, I am a bit confused about something ... once this gets published to the web successfully, if the above is resolved ... I am curious to know its functionality and how it will look being that it is vb.net 2010 code database app linked to sql server and not something coded say in ASP.NET?

Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide,

Joe

from what i know when you come to publish a website you buy a hosting package, from www.godaddy.com or www.123-reg.com or www.1and1.com what ever one of them fits your needs and then you upload the site on there servers.

I recommend www.networksolutions.com