Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Classic Publishing

Visual Studio 2010 still provides the ability of publishing Web applications the usual way, so it supports direct deployment to FTP sites, websites with FrontPage extensions enabled, the file system, and the local Internet Information Services, although you notice some innovations in the graphical user interface of the deployment window. For example, you might want to deploy the NorthwindOrders Web application, created in Chapter 37, “Building ASP.NET Web Applications,” to an FTP site. In Solution Explorer right-click the project name and then click Publish. This launches the Publish Web dialog; here expand the Publish Method combo box and then select FTP. At this point the dialog looks like Figure 38.1.

Figure 38.1 Publishing ...