Visual Studio deployment documentation

Learn how to deploy applications, services, and components using Visual Studio

About deployment

Overview

• First look at deployment
• Overview of Publish

ASP.NET web apps

Tutorial

• Publish tool
• Get publish settings from IIS
• Publish with Git

C++ applications

How-To Guide

• Installer package
• Setup project

.NET./.NET Core apps

Tutorial

• Publish tool
• ClickOnce
• Installer package

How-To Guide

• Package a desktop app for Windows Store

.NET Framework desktop apps

Tutorial

• ClickOnce
• Installer package

Deploy to Azure

Tutorial

• ASP.NET Core app to App Service
• ASP.NET to App Service (.NET Framework)
• ASP.NET web app to Azure Web Apps
• ASP.NET Core web app to Azure Container Apps
• Azure Functions
• Deploy with GitHub Actions
• Deploy Entity Framework Core app with GitHub Actions

Deploy Docker containers

How-To Guide

• Deploy to Azure Container Registry
• Deploy to Azure App Service
• Deploy to Docker Hub
• Deploy without a Dockerfile

Additional deployment types

How-To Guide

• Node.js apps on Linux App Service
• Containerized apps
• Publish NuGet packages