Deploying a site from VSS

Question

In answer to this question Joel Coehoorn said

Finally, only after the site's gone through a suitable QA process, the production server is updated from source control, not from within visual studio.

Does VSS Explorer have tools for deploying sites (via FTP, I would assume)? I noticed for the first time a Web/Deploy menu option, but it's grayed out. How does this work?

Answer 1

VSS has a pretty comprehensive set of command line arguments. The best way I know is to write a batch file to:

1 - Get Latest to the local system (presumably a clean build machine)

2 - Push the newly-updated local files to your FTP site.

Answer 2

Managing Web Content Using MS Visual SourceSafe

yes you can deploy via ftp or network share using the "web deploy" feature in the VSS explorer.