Deploying an application

[Farflame]

I'm new to this, but I've just followed a tutorial through, which I understand fully. Unfortunately, at the end, it simply says 'To deploy, copy the .aspx file and any necessary support files to a properly configured virtual directory on the web server'. When I look in the folder for the project, for some reason it only contains a single 1kb file, unlike other applications which seem to contain all the files, so I don't know where the .aspx file is.

I know how to upload stuff to a website etc.

So, is this stuff fairly simple, or will I need to follow more tutorials to deploy the application? If it's simple, could somebody let me know what to do next? If it's fairly complicated, does anyone know where I'd find a good tutorial about deploying an application?

Thank you.

[mendhak]

The ASPX files will most likely be in C:\INETPUB\WWWROOT, assuming that's your default web directory.

[Farflame]

Thanks, that's where they were. Strange that the tutorial didn't bother to mention that...... how come they're not just stored in the same folder as the other applications in My Documents?

Anyway, is the next step just to upload the files to a webpage?

[mendhak]

Thanks, that's where they were. Strange that the tutorial didn't bother to mention that...... how come they're not just stored in the same folder as the other applications in My Documents?

Because when you browse to those pages, using a URL like http://localhost/whatever, IIS needs to know where they are. So had you created a virtual directory in another location, then they could have been stored elsewhere.

Anyway, is the next step just to upload the files to a webpage?

Uhm... that doesn't make sense. Rebuild in release mode, Upload your files to the corresponding folder structure on your server. So, for example, your DLL file will go into a folder named BIN. Yadda yadda.