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Just publish modified controllers, models and some parts of a ASP.NET MVC project

If I change my views (.cshtml) or styles (.css) or scripts (.js) in my MVC projects then I can publish it easily by right click on it and select Publish FILE_NAME

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If I changed some controllers files or BLL classes or infrastructure classes,

  • Which files should be published? which DLLs?

  • Of course added references must be published but what are another?

  • Should I publish all the DLL files in the bin folder or just some?

  • Is there an easy way to VS detect modified files and publish theme by a command or...?

Edit1

I use FTP method to direct publish and upload our site to the server.

My Publish Preview Step Snapshot: enter image description here

  • What is the name of DLL files that contains the compiled information of controllers, BLL classes and...?
Solution

  • I just published the MVC5Bootstrap-3-1-1-Less.dll and it worked!

    So if we uploaded a website and then want only publish the new modified controllers or classes of the MVC web application (here: MVC5) to the server, we should upload the following files:

    • MVC5Bootstrap-3-1-1-Less.dll after build
    • Added references to the bin folder after build

    Here is a image of how publish DLLs of bin folder from Visual Studio:

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