Deploying a Visual Studio 2010 Web Application Project to a WinHost Server using FTP

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Created On	4/30/2010
Modified	6/28/2010

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Deploying a Visual Studio 2010 Web Application Project to a WinHost Server using FTP

The following instructions apply only to Web Application Projects. For Web Site Projects, please see this Knowledge Base article.

To publish your web application using FTP:

Open the project in Visual Studio 2010.
Click Build -> Publish. This will bring up the "Publish Web" dialog box.
Change the "Publish Method" to FTP.
In the target location field, enter: ftp://[domainName]/[subdirectory], e.g.; ftp://HostingAccountDomain.com/app1. Replace [subdirectory] with the directory you wish to publish the application to. If you are uploading your project directly on the root directory set the ftp address to ftp://HostingAccountDomain.com.
In username field, enter the FTP user name found in Control Panel.
In the password field, enter the FTP password.
Click Publish.

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