the last link I can find from the last one this beta 1 may too. Has Microsoft really refused this? I understand that they are just MSBuild templates, but nonetheless curious.
I hope they are not yet alive.
We probably used them improperly, so this is probably our own mistake, but they caused us huge problems when we wanted to update only part of our site. The perceived benefits of using website deployment projects have never paid off for us and simply caused more problems than they cost.
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Drats. They are still alive.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0AA30AE8-C73B-4BDD-BB1B-FE697256C459&displaylang=en
Visual Studio® 2010 Web Deployment Projects - RTW
Web Deployment Projects Going to VS2010 - This is Good News as Web Packs Do Not Support Website Design
I do not know about web deployment projects, but there is something definitely alive here: Web site deployment tool .
I assume they pack this in Visual Studio 2010. See http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/06/28/vs2010-beta1-web-application-project-database-package-and- smo-options.aspx
Microsoft answer:
Web deployment projects are not currently planned to become part of VS 2010 ... Since WDP is out of range, we have not started planning it since the team is focused on working in VS 2010 at that moment ...
It appears that they have definitely shifted their focus to onmsdeploy and "web packages."
I am the second David Stratton - these things are the definition of half-baked. Good ideas packaged in poor execution, the best I can say about them is that they are not InstallShield.