Summary

In this chapter, you saw different options for deploying Web applications. The Copy Web Site tool enables you to copy files to Web servers by using file shares, FTP, or FrontPage Server Extensions. Synchronization of files can happen in both directions. Publishing Websites is a new feature where just the assemblies are deployed to existing virtual directories. The Web administrator no longer has access to the sources. Finally, creating a setup project not only copies the ASP.NET pages and assemblies, but also creates a virtual directory with IIS.

In this chapter, you learned

• How to create a new Virtual Directory with IIS

• How to copy a Web Site with Visual Studio

• How to publish a Web Site with Visual Studio

• How to create a Setup Program for the installation of a Web application

The exercises following ask questions about topics you've learned with this chapter.

the next chapter is the first chapter in a series that deals with data access, starting with the file system.