Hello,

Some time ago I deployed an older version of mojoPortal with 2 custom extensions, however the extensions were not done the recommended way, but were rather created within mojoPortal. I have most of my programs in a folder in the web project and also 1 other program in the mojoPortal.Data.MSSQL project (which is my data layer).

I haven't had time to correct the forked code issue, but did recently do an enhancement to my extension and now need to deploy it to the same live site I deployed to originally. This site is deployed to the root folder of a hosting account on Arvixe.

I originally thought that all I had to do was make the needed changes to the live database (SQL Server) and copy over the new source files of my extension only. I mistakenly expected ASP.NET to recompile my programs after recognizing that the source changed the way Visual Studio does, but after trying this I found the programs weren't recompiling as I got errors due to new markup with new event handler methods that ASP.NET said did not exist (therefore my new code behind files were not getting recompiled).

I realized after that this approach was incorrect, especially since I forked mojoPortal, so my extension must not be creating separate dll files anyway.

I have deployed this enhancement successfully to a new (empty) subfolder at my staging host by simply publishing it via Visual Studio. I actually have several versions of this project running on my staging host account, each one in it's own subdirectory and I used Visual Studio web deploy publishing to deploy each one.

So my question is: how do I deploy to the live site on Arvixe (that is now and needs to stay in the root folder) so that mojoPortal (with my extension in it) gets recompiled? For my first (and only deployment of this so far), I copied all the files over from the staging version and that worked with no problems. I actually tried using web deploy from a local development version first, but had trouble with getting web deploy to work on Arvixe for some reason. What do you guys recommend this time?

Thanks again for all the help,

Dan

Yes, thanks that helps a lot. I think I'm going to try just ftping the files from my staging site for now as that site has the same changes which I published to it using VS, so all the dlls I need should still be there. This worked the first time I deployed it, and this way I avoid trying to get web deploy working on Arvixe. If that doesn't make sense please let me know.

I understand what your saying about segregating the extensions into their own project but right now I have to get this up there right away, but I'll try to come back later and get that done.

Thanks again,

Dan