How to connect to the production environment in SharePoint with Visual Studio

Question

What privileges should be set up to connect with the Visual Studio with Production Enviroment. Now I'm writing my code at SharePoint Foundation, but after it I want to migrate all to the production enviroment.

Answer 1

You're not supposed to deploy straight from Visual Studio to the production environment.

The proper way of working (AFAIK) would be to build packages in your development environment, then deploy the .wsp files on the production environment using PowerShell. In the case of sandboxed solutions, you can do it with the SharePoint UI instead.

Answer 2

As far as I know you can only remotely deploy Sandboxed solutions if you use Visual Studio 2012.
For Farm solutions you would have to publish a WSP file and manually add this to your production environment either by using PowerShell or Central Admin.
Apps for 2013 can also be remotely deployed.