Using Remote Servers in Visual Studio.NET

[jaredn]

Hello, thank you for taking the time to read this.

I am coming to C# from a background in heavy dhtml and asp work. My tool of choice when working with those technologies has always been HomeSite (originally an Allaire product, but it has since been picked up by Macromedia).

One of the features I liked best about Homesite was that it had inline support for working with files either locally or from an FTP site. The process was virtually seamless -- the only thing you realized when working with a remote server was that saving took a few extra seconds sometimes.

I've been trying to figure out how to do the same thing in VS.NET. It would be nice to be able to access files via FTP to work on web applications rather than having to save the files locally, fire up a standalone FTP client, upload them, then test them, then repeat.

Anyone have any advice?

jared@eae.net -

http://webfx.eae.net

 

[kneejnick]

VS .NET doesn't have that feature

 

[jaredn]

Wow. What a useful feature to leave out of such a great productivity tool. What on earth were they thinking :-/ ?


Thanks for answering though.

jared@eae.net -

http://webfx.eae.net

 

[manulamb]

Go to the Project menu and simply choose "Copy project". Your application will be deployed to the web server fully automatically.

 

[jaredn]

Whenever I attempt to add a web server that is not local (ie, that is over the internet) in the Server Explorer window, I receive an error to the effect of:

You have entered an Internet address or an IP address outside the local domain. Connections to Internet addresses or to external domains are not supported.

This is a big problem because my application server is not accessible via my LAN. It's sitting twelve states away on a Verio server rack.

jared@eae.net -

http://webfx.eae.net

 

[manulamb]

Can't you open a VPN connection to that server ?

 

[jaredn]

Perhaps and I hope so. Thanks for all the advice.

jared@eae.net -

http://webfx.eae.net

 

[chiph]

My guess is that Microsoft's thinking in not supporting this, is that in an enterprise environment, any web code you write would have to first be passed onto a QA department, and then to a configuration management department, who would be the ones to actually promote the code to the production website. Having the developer promote their own code would be a bad idea for a company like eBay.

Chip H.


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[jaredn]

Thanks Chiph. Makes sense. But still annoys the living daylights out of me.

Thanks again, everyone.

jared@eae.net -

http://webfx.eae.net