I am a newbie who needs some hand holding on publishing an ASP.NET app I wrote. It's running fine under the Visual Studio 2008 Express ASP.NET Development Server on my hard drive as localhost, but I need to publish it.
I wish to join a commercial web service like discountasp.net, but I am concerned that they will not help me publish. Before I join them (or anybody else) I would like to know what steps I would have to take to publish. So I'm asking this group.
Any advice greatly appreciated, even reference books if necessary.
PJ
Here are some screenshots:
http://cid-04b57c48188f7179.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Programming%20Album/WebScreen001Publish.jpg
In Visual Studio 2008 for ASP.NET, click on Build, then Publish will give you this screenshot
Clicking on the ellipses (...) of the prior screenshot, then on Local IIS button will give you this screenshot. But you must be the web server Administrator to run this option, so that excludes me I bet, leaving only "FTP Site" and "Remote Site" as options to publish?
http://cid-04b57c48188f7179.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Programming%20Album/WebScreen002FTP.jpg
Clicking on the FTP button gives this screen. If I was a member of a commercial server like discountasp.net, I could set up a Username and Password to FTP to this site?
http://cid-04b57c48188f7179.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Programming%20Album/WebScreen003RemoteWebSite.jpg
A Remote Site is the final option given under the Visual Studio 2008 publishing wizard. Who would set up the website if I was a member of a commercial web server like discountasp.net? Would I do that, and, if so, what web site location would I use? A virtual drive?
More info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa983453.aspx (How to: Publish Web Application Projects)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cdt9aht6.aspx (How to: Configure Published Web Sites)
http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/532962-Best-web-server-company-for-hosting-programmers-is/ (thread on looking for a commercial web server to join)
