In Visual Studio 2013 we have added a couple of small features for web publishing that I’d like to share with you. Those updates are; how to take your app offline during publishing and how you can update the default file compare option. App offline support In Visual Studio when you publish your web application we do not force the remote app to be stopped/restarted. Based on your publishing artifacts your site may end up being restarted ( for example you change web.config ) but Visual Studio never had a way to take your application offline during a publish operation. There are a lot of reasons why you may want to take your app offline during publishing. For example you app has files locked which need to be updated, or you need to clear an in...(read more)
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