Using VS.NET I am wondering what methods developers use to deploy ASP.NET 
website content to a remote server, either using FTP or network file copy.

Ideally there would be a one-button or one-key-chord way to upload a single 
file or a single site.

In Dreamweaver, you can hit "Control-Shift-U" to upload a single file to the 
remote site you have configured. This is extremely handy when you're doing 
quickie fixes and development, more handy than the VS.NET "Copy Website" 
tool. I wish VS.NET had a similar feature, or I wish I understood how to set 
it up to do something like this.

An alternative would be if I could somehow set up a macro bound to a key 
sequence that would synchronize a site.

I recognize this runs a bit against the grain of VS.NET's emphasis on 
quality code and development practices, but more people are going to be 
replacing Dreamweaver and its ilk with VS.NET, and it would be nice if we 
could use the tool in sloppy ways if necessary.

Any suggestions?

-KF

Well if you have your FTP client open, you should be able to just drag the 
file into it's  remote files window and you're done, no?
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"kenfine@newsgroup.nospam" wrote:


> Using VS.NET I am wondering what methods developers use to deploy ASP.NET 
> website content to a remote server, either using FTP or network file copy.
> 
> Ideally there would be a one-button or one-key-chord way to upload a single 
> file or a single site.
> 
> In Dreamweaver, you can hit "Control-Shift-U" to upload a single file to the 
> remote site you have configured. This is extremely handy when you're doing 
> quickie fixes and development, more handy than the VS.NET "Copy Website" 
> tool. I wish VS.NET had a similar feature, or I wish I understood how to set 
> it up to do something like this.
> 
> An alternative would be if I could somehow set up a macro bound to a key 
> sequence that would synchronize a site.
> 
> I recognize this runs a bit against the grain of VS.NET's emphasis on 
> quality code and development practices, but more people are going to be 
> replacing Dreamweaver and its ilk with VS.NET, and it would be nice if we 
> could use the tool in sloppy ways if necessary.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> -KF 
> 
> 
> 

Yes, but I want faster than GUI-stuff. A binding to a single key, button, or 
menu item, as Dreamweaver has. This is a significant weakness of VS.NET 
IMHO, and the only thing that's better about DW at this point. Should be 
solvable. :)


"Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]"  wrote 
in message news:B7AEF961-F2D8-41DA-AE6A-52B88E719DC8@microsoft.com...

> Well if you have your FTP client open, you should be able to just drag the
> file into it's  remote files window and you're done, no?
> -- Peter
> Recursion: see Recursion
> site:  http://www.eggheadcafe.com
> unBlog:  http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
> BlogMetaFinder:    http://www.blogmetafinder.com
>
>
>
> "kenfine@newsgroup.nospam" wrote:
>
>> Using VS.NET I am wondering what methods developers use to deploy ASP.NET
>> website content to a remote server, either using FTP or network file 
>> copy.
>>
>> Ideally there would be a one-button or one-key-chord way to upload a 
>> single
>> file or a single site.
>>
>> In Dreamweaver, you can hit "Control-Shift-U" to upload a single file to 
>> the
>> remote site you have configured. This is extremely handy when you're 
>> doing
>> quickie fixes and development, more handy than the VS.NET "Copy Website"
>> tool. I wish VS.NET had a similar feature, or I wish I understood how to 
>> set
>> it up to do something like this.
>>
>> An alternative would be if I could somehow set up a macro bound to a key
>> sequence that would synchronize a site.
>>
>> I recognize this runs a bit against the grain of VS.NET's emphasis on
>> quality code and development practices, but more people are going to be
>> replacing Dreamweaver and its ilk with VS.NET, and it would be nice if we
>> could use the tool in sloppy ways if necessary.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> -KF
>>
>>
>> 

Hi Kenfine,

Thanks for your feedback, I agree that for the file uploading/FTP client 
functinality, the one VS IDE provide currently is still quite generic and 
not that powerful and flexible as other prefessional FTP client or Web 
Designer tools(like DW).  So far the Visual Studio IDE still mainly focus 
on the programming specific tasks, and for ASP.NET web application, VS 2005 
and its add-on components will focus on the development and compilation 
features. For example, there has shipped a "Web Deployment project" for 
better and flexible precompilation of a given ASP.NET 2.0 Web application. 
And it will make the deployment preparation for an ASP.NET 2.0 appliation 
more convenient:

#Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects 
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336619.aspx

BTW, have you had a chance to have a look at the Expression Web(or 
Expresion Design Studio), it seems those suite will become the main design 
tools in the future and Expression web is more like a web page designer 
such as DW.

In addition, though the web publish feature is still quite limited, I 
suggest you post it to our feedback center so as to show your ideas and 
thoughts to your dev team. Your feedback and comments are really valuable 
resource:

#Visual Studio and .NET Framework Feedback 
https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/default.aspx?SiteID=210&wa=wsignin1.0

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

 

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