ASP.NET - Manual Deployment via. FTP

[David]

I am attempting to deploy a ASP.NET app on a 3rd party hosting system.
I only have FTP access to add files, etc. I tried using the Project
copy portion and point to the FTP server, but VS did not transfer the
files!

Now, I need to manually FTP the files. What core files need to be
sent and can they go to a single directory? Also, do I need to make
changes to any type of config files on the server? Eg. changes that
the install would make but I must make manually?

Thanks

 

[Brock Allen]

Depends if you're using codebehind w/ VS.NET and it's compiling the codebehind
files. If you are, then ~/bin/* needs to get copied over and then all your
content files like ASPX, CSS, JPG, .config etc. No .cs or .vb files need
to get copied over.

If you're not using codebehind, then the .vb and .cs files also need to get
copied over.

I'd suggest setting up a clean test machine and seeing for yourself what
is and isn't needed. This way you'll be comfortable knowing from your own
tests.