Holey schmoley! The "New" option leads the way. I haven't tried the whole process yet, but it looks like it makes sense. Thanks Stephen -- Greg
On 3 October 2013 13:46, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> wrote: > Click the dropdown next to the Import and select New. Give it a name. > Then under the connection tab (which it navigates to automatically) you > can change the type of deployment to File System. > The rest should be familiar hopefully. > > > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > >> Folks, before VS2012 you could right-click a web application project and >> say deploy/publish and it would precompile the app and put the results in a >> folder of your choice. You could then xcopy the contents straight over to a >> live site (I haven't done that for almost a year to the exact steps are a >> bit hazy now). >> >> In VS2012 the publish process opens a totally new dialog that forces you >> to open an Azure account and sign-up for a profile before you can publish. >> Azure is utterly irrelevant to what we're doing. >> >> In the project property pages there is still an "Output Folder" field on >> the "MSBuild Options" tab, but I've no idea where that field is used. It >> hints that I have to use msbuild from the command line, but I've never need >> to do that before. >> >> *Where on earth has the facility gone to simply precompile an app?* >> >> Greg K >> > >