Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit

Chapter 24. Deploying Your Website

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In this hour, we will cover

• Finding a web-hosting company

• The steps involved in deploying an ASP.NET application

• Techniques for uploading your website’s files

• Replicating a database with the Database Publishing Wizard and SQL Server Management Studio

• Updating the connection string information in web.config

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With the lessons learned through the past 23 hours, you are able to create useful data-driven ASP.NET web applications using Visual Web Developer and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. The only problem is that all the websites we have created in this book have been stored locally, on your own computer. Hosting your website locally has many advantages: you can test while ...