Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects (Beta Preview)

Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects (Beta Preview)

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Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects provide additional functionality for building and deploying Web site applications that you create in ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. This add-in includes a new tool that enables you to merge the assemblies created during ASP.NET 2.0 precompilation, and it provides a comprehensive UI within Visual Studio 2005 for managing build configurations, merging, and pre-build and post-build task using MSBuild. Download now  Note: .NET Framework 2.0 is required for this download

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Overview

A Web Deployment Project creates and maintains an MSBuild project file, and is associated in a solution with a Web site project. A Web Deployment Project enables you to manage not only build configuration and merge options, but other tasks such as specifying changes for the application's Web.config file during compilation, changing connection strings, creating virtual directories, and performing other tasks at specific points in the deployment process.

The new assembly merge tool (Aspnet_merge.exe) combines assemblies created during ASP.NET 2.0 precompilation for deployment. The tool supports many merge options, from combining assemblies for each Web site folder to creating a single assembly for the entire Web site.

More information about the new merge tool and about Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects is available in the following article:

• Using Web Deployment Projects with Visual Studio 2005. This article describes the Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Project add-in and how to create and manage Web Deployment Projects.
• Managing ASP.NET Pre-compiled Outputs with Aspnet_merge.exe Command. This article describes the functionality of the Aspnet_merge.exe command-line tool. This tool is also used by Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects.

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