Deploy site from a Visual Studio Soultion

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9/1/2011 12:34:27 PM
digitaliway
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Deploy site from a Visual Studio Soultion

I have a Visual Studio 2010 solution along with tortoise HG that I use to get updated code and create custom features - it all works and builds fine.

I assume that the web directory is what gets deployed to my hosting provider, but it differs from the packaged code so I want to be sure if I have to run a "BUILD - CLEAN MOJOPORTAL.WEB.

For example the packaged download in the "App_MasterPages" does not have .cs files but my built solution does.

thanks in advance.

9/1/2011 12:57:32 PM
Aaron W
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Re: Deploy site from a Visual Studio Soultion

Joe explains the process that he uses to make the deployment packages here.

9/1/2011 2:13:31 PM
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Re: Deploy site from a Visual Studio Soultion

Thanks Aaron - I tried the steps listed and only have one issue hopefully you can help.  I select the mojoPortal.Web project and publish to a an empty folder.  Publishing FAILS due to a dll file not being found called "log4net.dll"

Error 1 Copying file bin\log4net.dll to obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp\bin\log4net.dll failed. Could not find file 'bin\log4net.dll'.  0 0 mojoPortal.Web

Do I need that file??

any ides??

9/1/2011 2:21:07 PM
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Re: Deploy site from a Visual Studio Soultion

when I pull the changes from tortoise HG and then update I see the log4net.dll in my visual studio with a warning icon and that dll is not in the bin directory when I look.

I am thinking that tortoise HG is not pulling down that dll or I am doing something incorrectly.

9/1/2011 3:07:50 PM
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OK, I fixed it and I do not know why I had to do this, but I will let everyone know.  I took log4net.dll from another site bin directory and just placed it into the bin directory of the web project solution so it could be found and the publishing worked GREAT!

9/2/2011 7:49:48 AM
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Re: Deploy site from a Visual Studio Soultion

Glad you got it working. Sometimes VS just acts very odd when it comes to assemblies and locations. I have ran into that issue before and the best way was to do exactly what you did.

9/2/2011 8:50:16 AM
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I am glad I am not the only one that had that issue.  I also saw that after publishing, "App_Data" did not publish so I had to re-create that folder.  Strange, but the site does work fine - all part of learning.  Thanks!

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