ASP.Net Application deployment process

I am building an application in c#, webforms using sqlserver. I need to deploy the project to a staging server daily.

I want to know whats best way to deploy a website and what are steps? And can we automate this process?开发者_开发问答

Walkthrough: Publishing a Web Site:

You have the following options for copying the Web site:

• Copy to a folder on the local computer.
• Use a UNC share to copy to a shared folder that is on another computer on the network.
• Use FTP to copy to a server.
• Use the HTTP protocol to copy to a server that has FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) installed on it.

For automatic publish your should read about the Continuous intergation

Personally, I use JetBrains TeamCity, there's a free version of it and it might have a bit of a learning curve for you.

But this is a pretty broad question, there are tons of ways of doing this; from using batch files and MSBuild, to build servers like TeamCiry, CruiseControl.Net, or Microsoft's Team System.

You should find all the info you need here on Vishal Joshi's new blog post on the topic. They are only now starting to document this properly:

http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2011/07/documenting-key-end-to-end-deployment.html