Visual Studio 2005: FTP Functionality

Published 06 May 05 02:29 AM | jld

One of my biggest pet peeves about Visual Studio 2003 (as an ASP.NET developer) is the lack of FTP support. To compile and upload a solution, you have to go through no less than 8 separate steps: Save, Build, Copy Project, Confirm Overwrite, Open External FTP Client, Connect to Website, Copy Files and Confirm File Overwrite. Rinse and repeat. Sure, it's possible to copy files over to a remote server using FrontPage Extensions...but no one I know likes using it.

Visual Studio 2005 has added a new Publish option which can be accessed by clicking: Build > Publish:

You can then specify what server you want to access, remote directory, username, password and a few other options.

There are still a few kinks to be worked out of the client. For example, there is no ability to stop the transfer after you click OK. Your IDE will freeze up and you have to wait until the connection times out! Other than that, the integrated FTP client is a nice enhancement.

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# Bil Simser said on May 6, 2005 08:05 AM:

Nice! I hadn't seen that yet so something new to try out. Thanks.

# Travis said on May 6, 2005 10:58 AM:

No matter what they do, it will never be the "deploy" tool that UnleashIt is...

http://www.eworldui.net/UnleashIt/

# Jim C said on May 9, 2005 03:45 PM:

UnleashIt rocks.
I guess you never tried it.

My GOSH you did a lot of steps tp deploy.
Did you EVER bother looking for a "helper" program, a script or whatever??

Wow...

# Jean-Luc David said on May 9, 2005 03:50 PM:

Yes, I have upload scripts to facilitate the task. However, if you don't use 3rd party helper programs or customized solutions (or FrontPage extensions) the steps I described is what's required to get a site online using VS2003. I'm really glad MS incorporated built-in FTP functionality in VS2005!

# 234234 said on June 8, 2007 06:30 PM:

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# avain said on May 20, 2008 05:18 PM:

how do you get around the issue once you click Ok  and it stays in loading mode and does not end till you  hit stop and then the transfer does not occur. I simply cannot use this tool.

# Shane said on June 22, 2008 04:57 PM:

Huge problem with VS2005 FTP. Went to save work and the save failed, but it didn't just fail; It saved a blank page and I lost all of my code. I was using VS2005 to work on a live page and was hooked up to it using FTP.

# liz said on July 16, 2008 05:57 PM:

I use the new ftp code a lot for getting and putting files.  Now I want to use it for creating a directory.. anyone know how to do that?

# common sense said on January 23, 2009 06:51 PM:

Hope you learned your lesson.. never work on live pages.

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