I am new to working with deploying a C# web application 2010. I want to use the setup and deploy template in the visual studio .net 2010 ide since that is what the previous programmer(s) used at my company. Right now I am the only programmer at my small company. I also want to mention there are is no written deployment documentation for this web application. I have used the setup and deploy project file that I generated, but it does not install the web form 2010 application to acutally run.
Thus,I am trying to determine what I could have done wrong.
Here are my question:
1. I am not exactly certain what I need to include in the project file for it to work. I can see the files that were generated by theoriginal programmers but I am not certain if I need exactly those files those particular folders.
Thus can you make a recommendation on how I determine what files to include in the deployment.?
2. Also once I deploy the application, I am not certain exactly how to test that the application to that it actually acutally runs. Basically the production application runs on IIS 7. Do you think I should deploy the application to cassini on my workstation and then see if it runs? Thus basically are there directions I can follow to see how I can test the web application? Would I deploy the web application in steps? Should I deploy the web application to cassini, then to iis on a test server?