How to change deploy server in visual studio 2010 for web part?

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How to change deploy server in visual studio 2010 for web part?

I have a web part that I have been deploying to Server A. I now have a new SharePoint environment I would like to deploy my web part to (Server B). How can I set the web part solution to deploy to Server B rather than Server A? I have done this before but cannot find the place to do it.

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To Deploy from Visual studio, VS needs to be installed on the server you're deploying to. To change the site you're deploying to for development/debugging purposes is a property on the project file in VS.

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Shaneo 2010-08-10 15:46:40

I tried changing the csproj.user file to point to the new server and it still deployed to the old server. Any ideas why this would be?

Josh 2010-08-10 16:02:44

Okay, I got it... I am now getting this error: Error 1 Error occurred in deployment step 'Recycle IIS Application Pool': Cannot connect to the SharePoint site: http://server/realestate/. Make sure that this is a valid URL and the SharePoint site is running on the local computer. If you moved this project to a new computer or if the URL of the SharePoint site has changed since you created the project, update the Site URL property of the project. 0 0 Is this probably because VS2010 is not installed on the SharePoint server?

Josh 2010-08-10 16:11:13

Yes - if you need to deploy to a different server from Visual studio then Visual Studio needs to be on that server - items need to be copied into the hive and the GAC and an iisreset needs to be called.If your new server isn't a development server then use stsadm or powershell to deploy your WSP. No amount of changing a csproj file will allow you to remotely deploy from visual studio.

Shaneo 2010-08-11 10:55:00

In order to deploy to a remote SP application, I recommend using PowerShell scripts that are run on the remote server. That is what I did, and it works well. Much easier than stsadm.

Josh 2010-08-18 19:32:18

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