asp.net website publishing / deploying

Question

How do I publish/deploy an asp.net website to a live server (like a goDaddy server)? I moved all the files to the remote server without dataaccess layer and business layer. Move dlls to bin folder on live server. But when I try to browse website it gives errors like:

Could not load file or assembly 'BusLayer' or one of its dependencies. This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'BusLayer' or one of its dependencies. This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded.

Please help me handle these errors. I am not very good at English; maybe there are a lot of mistakes in my question. Thanks in advance for help.

Answer 1

"This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded." usually means that you have a .NET version issue. Is the BusLayer assembly on the server compiled under a newer version that the web site?

Also, does the app run locally? If so, publish all the contents of your local BIN.

I hope you made a backup of your site prior to deployment.

Answer 2

I assume Bus layer means business layer. I believe that your presentation layer has some dependencies on the business layer. Now since you didn't push the business layer to production (remote server), its looking for a file and not finding it and hence the error.

the fix i guess will be to move all your files to remote server and try browsing files that doesn't have database dependencies (Again, assuming you don't have a database at production)