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How to publish asp.net project by Visual Web developer 2008 by ftp/http

Mark — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:59:01 GMT

You can publish your asp.net project by either ftp or http. This article will show you how to publish your asp.net project to web server using visual web developer express edition. If your web application is a Web Site rather than Project in visual web developer, you may refer to this article for publishing.

For http,
1. You will have to log in hosting control panel > site admin > install Frontpage extension to the domain/subdomain IIS entry.
2. Open Visual Web developer > Open your project > Click on "Build" on the top panel > Click on "Publish Webapplication"
3. Input the url, for example, http://webapp1.domain.com
4. Select "Only files need to run the application". If you select "all project files", it will include everything inside your project folder, which will take much longer time to publish.
5. You will see a log in prompt. Please input username and password to be the same as your control panel log in credential. It will start publishing if you have installed Frontpage Extension properly in steps 1. If it is failed, you are suggested to recalculate or reinstall Frontpage extension under hosting control panel > site admin > Frontpage
6. After publish complete, the output panel on the bottom of your visual web developer will show you successful result.

For ftp,

1. Open Visual Web developer > Open your project > Click on"Build" on the top panel > Click on "Publish Webapplication"
2. Input the ftp host, for example, ftp://webapp1.domain.com or if your site doesn't resolve to your web server IP, you will have to input ftp host with your server IP, for example, ftp://10.10.10.1.
3. Select "Only files need to run the application". If you select "allproject files", it will include everything inside your project folder,which will take much longer time to publish.
4. You will see a log in prompt. Please input your ftp account as the log in credential. Please make sure you are publishing to the right path because this will overwrite the existing files in the publish folder. Let's say if you would like to publish to site webapp1.domain.com which mapped to physical path D:\hosting\member\memberA\site1, if you are using a ftp account which root path mapped to physical path D:\hosting\memebr\memberA, in step 2, you will have to input the ftp host as ftp://webapp1.domain.com/site1. Otherwise, it will publish to wrong path and overwrite the existing files.
5. After publish complete, the output panel on the bottom of your visual web developer will show you successful result.

How to Display Reporting Service Reports with asp.net reportviewer control?

Mark — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:34:28 GMT

To use ReportViewer control remote modeto display reports deployed to SQL reporting server, you will need tosign up with SQL Reporting service from your hosting control panel, andhave your reports deployed to the report server.
You may also want to know "How to use SQL Reporting Service web service to generate report in specific file format"

Summary to write your report viewer:

1. Using Visual Studio drag the ReportViewer control to the form
2. create a class that implements the Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.IReportServerCredentials class.
3. override the NetworkCredentials property of the new class, you can put your login information here
4. initiate an object from the new class and assign to your ReportViewer.ServerReport.ReportServerCredentials property.

Example:

http://webho_demo.mysite4now.com/reportviewer/default.aspx

Source code:

http://webho_demo.mysite4now.com/reportviewer/reportviewer.zip

MSDN reference:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.webforms.ireportservercredentials(VS.80).aspx

Known issue:

1. If you see asp.net session exception, try to set the reportviewer control Async property to False.

Parser Error Message: Could not load type

Mark — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:04:00 GMT

Please note that this is a general FAQ for the error "Parser Error Message: Could not load type..."

You get this error because you did notpublish your .net project via Visual Studio so the .net bin folder and therequired DLLs wasn't created.

The best solution for this is

1) Publish the application to your local machine and then upload it via ftp including the bin folder.

2) Use your Visual Studio and publish theapplication directly to your site. (This require you to have a workingurl that's already pointed to our server. Frontpage extension need to enable on this URL, too)

How to connect and create web project using visual studio

Mark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:59:02 GMT

connecting, creating web project using visual studio

Ifyou use frontpage extension to connect your visual studio .net to yourweb application. You need to have frontpage extension turned on foryour website. (To turn on Frontpage extension check here) If the web project is a folder under your domain root,eg. http://www.domain.com/webapp1/, you need to turn /webapp1 into asubweb from your frontpage extension administration. Sometimes this isdone for you from visual studio .net. However, if vs.net failed to doso for you you will get error like:

"The web 'webapp1' located on server 'http://domain.com'"

"Unable to open the web project 'webapp1'"

Youwill need to go to your frontpage administration site :http://domain.com/_vti_bin/_vti_adm/fpadmdll.dll?page=webadmin.htm, atthe bottom click on "create subweb", in the "name" field enter yourfolder name to turn this folder into a subweb manually. The frontpageadministration site is also accessible from your Frontpage 2003 Tools-> Server -> Administration Home.