Do you avoid publishing from Visual Studio?

Publishing from Visual Studio is a convenient way to deploy a web application, but it relies on a single developer’s machine which can lead to problems. Deploying to production should be easily repeatable, and able to be performed from different machines. A better way to deploy is by using a defined Build in TFS.

❌ Figure: Bad Example – Using Publish to deploy

✅ Figure: Good Example – Queuing a new build to deploy your application

✅ Figure: Best example – Use continuous integration to trigger your Continuous Deployment build