Publish Website with Visual Studio & Frong Page Extensions

The tutorial explains how you can use Visual Studio to publish or ftp your local website to the remotely hosted website or account. Front page extensions must be installed on your remote hosted account to be able to use the 'Copy Web Site' feature of Visual Studio. 1. Launch Visual Studio
2. Open your local copy of the website. Go to File >> Open Web Site. From within the Open Web Site dialog box, choose File System and select the web site folder to open. Click on Open to open the local copy of your website in Visual Studio.



3. Now that your local copy is open in Visual Studio, we will access the remote website so that we can publish the website. Select Website >> Copy Web Site from the Toolbar menu. From the Open Web Site dialog box now choose Remote Site and type in your Domain Name / Web Address in the Web Site Location field. Click on Open to access your remotely hosted account or server space.



4. You will be prompted with a dialog box asking for username and password. Type in your FTP username in the User name field and your FTP password in the Password field. Click on Ok



5. If you typed in everything correctly and Front Page extensions are installed, you should be connected now.

You can start copying files to the remote server now.