ASP.NET Web Application Deployment Methods Best Practice

Question

Got a quick question about deployment methods,

I am use to programming a site in Visual Studios using C# for ASP.net and then saving and building it, then copying over the entire contents of the folder for the Visual Studio project to the coordinating IIS folder that is hosting the site each time I make a change to the site and need to update it, but there has got to be a better more efficient way do this to deploy the web site or application from Visual Studios to update your site.

Does anyone have any advice on deployment techniques or any builtin tools in Visual Studios has for deployment of a programmed site. Any advice is helpful.

Answer 1

You can use MSBuild Community FTP Task . Another you can use XCOPY .

Answer 2

you can look in to the Publish feature of Visual Studio. This will work if it's just a small site and just you working on it. If things get bigger and more complex, you may want to look it something else like CruiseControl .