Deploying Your Applications

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use VS.NET for deploying your applications. Deployment is the process where you copy your solution to or install your solution on other machines. Generally, deployment is one of those often-overlooked areas of the software development process. In many organizations, it’s out there with testing—a task that will be performed after you finish the development, time permitting.1 But you now know that deployment (and testing) should be part of the overall project, and you should start planning it when you plan the development. We’re not saying that you should start building deployment projects as soon as you start developing, but you should have an idea of what to deploy and to where.