How do I deploy an ASP.NET MVC web site using Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Edition?

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I'm having problems deploying my website to the live server using VWD 2010 Express. I had done this without a problem in VWD 2008 Express. But, it seems that the tools for publishing a site are very different from 2008 to 2010.

What I've tried so far is to go to

  • Project>Package/Publish Settings and I change configuration to release
  • uncheck "Create deployment as a zip file"
  • I specify the location where the package will be created
  • and then I go to Project>Build Deployment Package

VWD 2010 express shows:

------ Build started: Project: genesis, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------

genesis -> C:\Documents and Settings\computeruser\pathtoproject\projectname\projectname\bin\projectname.dll

------ Publish started: Project: genesis, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------

========== Build: 1 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

========== Publish: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

The problem is when I go to the publish location, the website gets buried in a bunch of folders. I have to drill 5-10 folders deep to reach the actual web site files.

Am I doing something wrong? How can I get VWD 2010 Express to simply build the site in the location I specify?

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1 Answers

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I tackled this very problem today. Since we have Final Builder handling our builds, I just created a FileSet in that with a bunch of exclusions, and then a later step in my build script copies those files to my deployment target folder.

You could reproduce the same result by just using xcopy excluding the file types you don't need on your web server.