With the Visual Studio Deployment Manager extension, you can publish a web application directly to Deployment Manager from Visual Studio:

1. Open your web project solution in Visual Studio.

2. In Solution Explorer, right-click on a project in your solution.
   The context menu is displayed:
   

   You can also access this option from the Build menu in the Visual Studio title bar.

3. Click Publish for deployment.
   The Deployment Manager Details page of the wizard is displayed:
   
4. Type or paste your Deployment Manager server URL into the Deployment Manager URL box.
5. Copy your API key from your user profile in Deployment Manager and paste it in to the API Key box.
6. Click Next.
   The Package Details page is displayed:
   
   
7. Type a name for the package or accept the default.

8. Type a package version or accept the default.

   The extension automatically increments the least significant number of the version each time you publish.

9. Select a package feed from the Package feed to publish to box.
   For more information on package feeds, see Working with package feeds.
10. Click Publish.
    The package is published and the Publish Application Package page is displayed:
    
11. Click Finish.

Deploying a package with Deployment Manager

After you've published an application package, you can deploy it using the Deployment Manager web interface or command line. For more information, see Configuring a package step.