Visual Studio 2019 Asp .net Upload Database Does Not Show in Publish Dialog

In Visual Studio 2012 Update ii there's a sweet trivial new gem, that I championed for some time in the past, and that has finally made it into the VS box: You can now publish individual files to the server without having to publish the unabridged site. You can now publish 1 or more than files simply by selecting them in the Solution Explorer and using the Context Card's Publish Selected Files or Publish File xxxx.xxx.

In the past if yous wanted to publish your site, information technology was an all or aught affair: You basically had to rebuild and re-publish the entire site. Publishing works peachy when you're making major updates that bear upon binaries and configuration settings. In that case you lot exercise want a full publish to push upwardly your binary file changes likewise as spider web.config transformations etc. This is a great characteristic and the cornerstone of publishing which is as it should be.

But on more than a few occasions I've:

• Forgotten to include some content file like an image in a full publish
• Had to make a really minor modify to a content file or image and need to push it upwards
• Make some quick iterative changes repeatedly to a file to tweak the UI or an epitome on the server

Now, with Update ii y'all have another option to publishing the unabridged site -you can now publish an individual file.

I know this is a minor matter, but I tin't tell yous how oftentimes I use this for quick paradigm or CSS updates. Sometimes I actually prefer making changes to these sorts of things on a live site rather than firing up the local copy first particularly if the live site is running with a full prepare of data. It'south often user-friendly to merely push individual files. This is especially true for my personal content sites, more so than typical business applications.

Web Deploy Getting Easier

As a side annotation I've been a big fan of Web Deployment in Visual Studio - it's such a tremendous time saver over manually uploading files to the server and trying to figure out what needs updating. Prior to Web Deploy features in Visual Studio I actually had used a custom solution I cobbled together using FTP that provided much of the same functinality including the abililty to push private files which I found very useful.

Information technology'due south likewise great in a squad environment, since publish settings are typically shared in source command. This ensures that everybody is pushing up code consistently to the staging or alive server using the aforementioned settings that are configured only once. Information technology'south great when a new developer comes on board especially - they don't take to configure anything they are just set up to go.

When Spider web Publishing was introduced the intial versions were horrible to the indicate of unusability. In VS 2010 it improved somewhat, only the server side installation of Spider web Deploy was even so a major pain in the ass. Getting Web Deploy configured properly on the server has been a real pain in the ass with iii different installs required and several manual configuration steps.

With the latest Web Deploy 3.0 release though, Microsoft finally seems to have gotten Web Deploy right to where it's a single uncomplicated installation on the server that only works once installed. There no longer are any finicky configuration settings and it just works off the single install. Within of the Visual Studio 2012 Spider web Publish customer besides has fabricated the Publish Settings dialog a fleck more user friendly and more flexible in what yous can use to connect to the server. VS now understands pure site urls and virtuals as opposed to the base site url and Site ID/Proper name that was required previously and was ever confusing.

The stop effect is I no longer dread setting up Web Deploy for the first time on a server, nor do I have to go await up the configuration for another site to figure out what put in the boxes :-).

It's kind of lamentable that it took so long for Web Deploy to get it all right, but at present the whole affair is ridiculously smoothen. There are a still a few issues with web.config transforms that are difficult to deal with from fourth dimension to time, only that'south not really Spider web Deploy's problem, merely a trouble of how to partition developer specific settings in configuration files which is ever a problem.

In any case, I hope some of you notice the new single file or selected file publishing feature as useful as I have. Information technology's just one more than piddling tweak that makes life easier and shaves a few minutes off the evolution process. Score!

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Source: https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2013/May/10/Publish-Individual-Files-to-your-Server-in-Visual-Studio-20122