deploy vs 2010 web form app

Question

I work for a small company where a C# web form 2010 application was written. My job is to make enhancements to the application since I have limited C# web experience.

For now I just want to deploy the production code to my workstation and run the website on my workstation using IIS 7 that is compatible with IIS6.

When I look at the deployment project file in this application, I see debug and release folders that contain the setup.exe and application.msi files.

However from the ways I have been trying to deploy the application, I do not the setup.exe and application.msi files.

I have probably been using the web deploy item that comes with Visual studio.net 2010 professional edition. I also wanted to mention, the network administrator does not have 'web deploy' installed on the production server.

Thus can you tell me and/or point me to a reference where I can setup a deployment project the way the contract shop does?

Answer 1

Hello,

You can setup the IIS on your work station and move all the files from the production web server on to your machine. Do you have the source code? If so, you can open it using Visual Studio and publish it to your local IIS or debug it from there.

Answer 2

Can you tell me how to complete the steps I asked about above? Thus can you tell me and/or point me to a reference where I can setup a deployment project the way the contract shop does?