In order to complete the following instructions, you must have the following installed:

Begin by creating a folder structure to store application code, required configuration files, and packages in the same directory as your application resources, similar to the following:

• c:\mySites\site1
  
• c:\mySites\Packages
  
• c:\mySites\ConfigFiles

Note: The following procedures refer to these example folders; replace the example folder names with your own folder names.

Last, set up a profile for your AWS account in Visual Studio by following the instructions at

Create an application package that can be used with Elastic Beanstalk via the CLI tools

There are two different processes depending on whether the application bundle is a website project or a .NET project. The following steps show both possible options to create an Application Package.

Website project

The required configuration file and commands can be extracted from the interactive process when publishing using AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio.

First, publish your Elastic Beanstalk application using the Visual Studio Publish to AWS wizard by following the instructions at Create an Elastic Beanstalk Environment.

Note: Before publishing, ensure that the Output window is open.

The Output window provides an msdeploy.exe command. The following is an example of this command: