推荐Visual Studio FTP部署插件

Question

we've recently stumbled across the excellent Dispatch for ASP FTP deployment plug in. It looks great apart from one thing: It doesn't work with Visual Studio 2010 , at least for us, anyway. (It's supposed to work fine.)

(Yes, we've tried everything: We've managed to get Dispatch working for another FTP site, but not the main one we regularly deploy to. We have managed to connect to our main site through FileZilla FTP, so the site itself is configured correctly. All settings have been triple checked, but the software still throws up weird errors (always to do with its internal libraries).)

So does anyone know of any other comparable FTP-based, deployment plug-in for Visual Studio?

Here's what Dispatch does (and so any suggested replacement must do):

• Monitor any altered files in the project. When a file is changed, it's added to a list of files to be deployed.
• To deploy these files to the live site, all we need to do is click "Upload" and the plugin will connect via FTP to our live site and upload the selected files.
• We can filter out any filenames we don't want to be monitored/uploaded (eg .cs or web.config or /Images/ , etc.)

I think that's all the features that we need. Thanks for any suggestions!

Note: If you're wondering why we need such a service, it's because we deploy many site changes over the course of a single day. Publishing the entire project to a folder, zipping it up, then FTPing that zip file, only to have to unzip it, and then install the entire project into the live wwwroot takes far too long. With Dispatch you're able to upload individual files in a single click.

Answer 1

After much back and forth between me and the creator of Dispatch, we managed to narrow down the problem to the library he was using ( Rebex FTP ). I posted a question about the issue on the Rebex forums, and it was revealed that their software might have a bug with IIS7.5 . They suggested a quick hack/fix, which I tested and discovered worked.

Mr. Dispatch then quickly implemented this hack/fix into his software, and lo! I had a fully working copy of Dispatch... So no need for a replacement any more!

(And from what I've seen, there isn't even any other plug-ins offering this functionality, so it's just as well.)

Answer 2

Just an update - Dispatch does not work with VS 2013 so if you have VS 2012 with Dispatch installed, Keep it. Also the website is gone so it looks like all development has ceased. I have been using Dispatch since VS2005 and it has been great for just sending single files up when I need to. Too bad it is gone.

Answer 3

I built a very simple one for myself - you right click the file in Solution Explorer and it then uploads that file based on a settings file you create.

It's super crude but it works and the source is there to make it better if you like -

https://github.com/garazy/vs-2017-ftp-upload

Answer 4

Big enhancements have been added to VS2008, VS2010, VS2012. Below is the article. I found that Microsoft did all the above while I was searching. Since this came up high in what I was searching, thought should share this knowledge.

Deploy a Web Application Project Using One-Click Publish Without Web Deploy