Publish an web application project to local directory from vs2012

Question

I have an web application project developed with vs2012 (fw 4.0). I want to publish it in my local folder. In later time, I 'll copy the published contents in server. How can i do it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Follow below step for publish web application

• Right click on web project and select "Publish" from menu.
• select Connection Tab
• Select publish method as "File system"
• Select Path in "Target Location"
• And finally click on "Publish" button

And after successfully publish check out target location