Hi Imar,

I'm not sure if I missed some steps in the book (I know you'll point me to them but I did try to find them). This regards actually pushing the website files to the hosting location after the hosting database is setup.

To get the site to the hosting location the big change seems to be the connection strings (not with standing of course the rest of the deployment checklist).

Do we change the connection strings and run the website from the development machine, and then publish? Or do we publish and then change the connection strings? Should we do one or the other, and for what reason?

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Alan

Yo can do a local publish, the change the connection strings and then upload to your host. Or you can publish directly and skip the config file.

With VS 2013, you can use Web Config Transformations (discussed in my new book) which makes this a lot easier.

Cheers,

Imar

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