Q:

Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application to an Intranet

I have an ASP.NET web application that I just completed.  I am now preparing to deploy the application to my company's intranet.  I wanted to prepare the files so that I can simply give them to my company's IT group for uploading.  I reviewed some of the previous Q&As posted on this website; however, there doesn't appear to be a simple way to deploy an ASP.NET web application from Visual Studio.  From what I am finding, it looks like I have to go through the VS features to copy the files to a server.  Unfortunately, I built the web app on my personal computer so I do not have access to any of my company's internal servers.
Therefore, I was hoping there was a way to just gather the files from VS and then place them conveniently in a folder to be copied into a server, such as IIS.  Sort of like deploying a C# application by simply copying the install files to a computer.  Does anyone know if this is possible? 
For additional information, I am using VS 2008 and the web app reads off of an Access Db through ADO.NET (I understand I will have to change the path before deployment).
Thank you,
Damion      

A:

Sounds like you are using a Web Application Project.  Right click on your web project in Visual Studio and select Publish.  You can publish to a local folder on your file system, and then provide those files to your company's IT group.  Be sure you select the "only files needed to run this application" option.  Is your Access file in your App_Data folder or elsewhere on your network?

