I want to keep my source protected on my development machine, how would I deploy ASP.NET MVC to the server?

I'm not exactly sure what to do, normally I do a commit to SVN and Cruise Control does all this stuff on the server to pull from the repo and deploy everything.

However I am just playing around for fun with my personal VPS and want to know how I can from Visual Studio 2010 (web express) on my local machine just make some kind of installer or DLL or whatever and how to deploy it to my VPS of Windows Server 2008.

Do I upload via FTP and run something or place some files in a certain 开发者_JAVA百科location and configure through IIS? Or is there some way Visual Studio can just interface with my server and impregnate it with my beautiful code?

From the description given, I'd recommend 2 options:

• check whether your server installation currently supports one-click publishing. It's likely an IIS configuration task(s) and/or ensuring your server supports MSDeploy/WebDeploy. See "One-Click Publishing - What's New". Publish Use Visual Studio 2010's Publish command to perform a Web Deploy of your solution.

• setup an FTP server on your server. Use Visual Studio 2010's Publish command with the FTP option to push your built solution.

Would this MSDN article help?

The thing is there's capabilities in Visual studio that can publish a web application on a web server.

But you can always do an xcopy deployment as well. And since you've obviously never deployed a web application yet maybe it would be good to learn something and actually deploy it manually.