[RESOLVED] Difference Web Site and Web Application

[Webskater]

I asked a question a while ago about whether to create a Web Site or a Web Application ... and the consensus seemed to be in favour of Web Application projects.

So, I have just created my first Web Application project - which, when you set it up, is described as 'A project for creating an application with a web user interface'.

First stupid question - is a Web Application project going to be accessible from the internet - i.e. can you deploy it on a Windows server running IIS so that anyone with a web browser can use it?

If this is true (and if it is what is the difference between a Web Application project and a 'Web site'?) - how do you publish it?

I am working on an intranet and, when publishing to a Windows Server 2003 running IIS 6 I could publish to http://somedomain/somesite as FrontPage Server Extensions are available. But, more recent sites are published to a Windows 2008 server running IIS 7.5 and I have been publishing to a file path. So I just publish to \\servername\websites\website1 and it all works okay.

But with this web application project there seems to be a lot more options for publishing. I want to publish using a file path so I selected File System and just tried to publish to a server on the network. All I get is 'Publish failed' - no clue as to why. The receiving folder is definitely there with a 'hello world' default.aspx file in there which, if you go into IIS and browse, runs okay.

Can anyone give me any tips on how to publish this because, any minute now, I'm going to have to give up and create another 'Web Site' and copy all the files over and start again.

Thanks for any help.