

You'll deploy Release builds to both your test and production environments. If the Configuration box does not indicate Active (Release), select Release in order to display settings for the Release build configuration. When the window is displayed, it defaults to showing settings for whichever build configuration is currently active for the solution. In Solution Explorer, right-click the ContosoUniversity project, select Properties, and then select the Package/Publish Web tab. These settings are specified for each build configuration - that is, you can have different settings for a Release build than you have for a Debug build. A few settings that you should be aware of are located in the Package/Publish tabs of the Project Properties window. Most settings that affect what happens during deployment are included in the publish profile, as you'll see in the following tutorials. Configure deployment settings in the project properties window

You also create a placeholder file that causes an empty folder to be deployed. In this tutorial you review the deployment settings in Project Properties.

In most cases, the default values of these settings are what you want, but you can use the Project Properties UI built into Visual Studio to work with these settings if you have to change them. Some deployment options are configured in project properties that are stored in the project file (the. For information about the series, see the first tutorial in the series. This tutorial series shows you how to deploy (publish) an ASP.NET web application to Azure App Service Web Apps or to a third-party hosting provider, by using Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2010.
