Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects is a cool add on to VS2005 I just discovered -- it's a tool that wraps up some of the functionality in deploying/building/publishing web applications in VS2005. It doesn't do anything (well,
almost -- it does have a new assembly merge tool) you can't do by command line / configuration / GUI options. It does, though, neatly coalesce these options.
It's pretty noninvasive in the project, and adding a deployment project makes it real easy to deploy to dev/stage/test environments. It's currently Beta V2.
