How to publish a web site using Visual Studio Express Web 2010

Question

I need to publish a web site (DLLs built in release mode) using Visual Studio 2010 Express (Web Developer).

Any idea like using batch, or whatever, since I don't have the professional version.

Answer 1

It depends what you are doing. If it's an internal IT arrangement where you have servers that already are configured with your base environment, dependencies and what not you can just use technologies like msbuild or MS Deploy / Web Deploy to syncronize your changes into dev, test and production ( or whatever you call it ). Check out Scott Gu's blog article:

VS2010 Web Deployment

But if you are creating a product that will ship to customers ( like Sharepoint or Team Foundation Server ) then I would look at Windows Installer / WiX / InstallShield to create a complete system for shrinkwrapping and deploying your application and all of it's nderlying dependencies and configuration details.