How To Publish Web API - Visual Studio
In this post i will show you how to publish your Web API project in Visual studio Open your solution and select the Web API project. Right click on the project and select Publish. Then it will popup Publish Web process. In here i will show you how to publish using custom profile Select Custom and enter Profile Name Hit next.(Connection tab) Select publish method as File System. And provide file location as Target Location i'm using HOST folder in C: drive. Hit next (Settings tab). Select Configuration as Release (By default in Release) and hit next (Preview tab). Click Publish button to publish your Web API. You can see publishing process in output window in Visual Studio . After succeeded the process you can brows file location and find all the files that you need to host your application. Now you can use this files to host in IIS server. Just need do give file path to IIS Enjoy.