Description of the copy operations that are available in the Project Copy dialog box when you deploy a Web project in Visual Studio .NET (836159)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2003), Enterprise Architect Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2003), Enterprise Developer Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2003), Academic Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Enterprise Architect Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Enterprise Developer Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Academic Edition

INTRODUCTION

This article discusses the various types of copy operations that are available in the Project Copy dialog box to copy the contents of a Web project.

MORE INFORMATION

The Project Copy dialog box contains the following three options:
  • Only files needed to run this application
    This option copies the files that a user must have to run your Web application. These files include the following:
    • The output DLL from the Bin folder
    • All files that are marked as BuildAction = content, such as .html files, image files, .aspx files, and others
    • All references in the Bin folder
    Note If the COM+ references are in the Bin folder, these references will not be registered on the destination computer.
  • All project files
    This option copies all the files that appear under "Only files needed to run this application" in this section, plus any other files in your project, such as .vb files or .cs source files, and the project file itself.
  • All files in the source project folder
    This option copies all the files that appear under "All project files" in this section, plus any other files in your Web. These files may include files that are not part of this project. These additional files are only visible in Solution Explorer if you have turned on the Show All Files option.

REFERENCES

For more information about how to deploy a Web project, visit the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web sites:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vbconDeploymentOverNetwork.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnet-jspmig-deployment.asp

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