Dispatch for VS2005 (formerly titled Web Deployer)
September 26, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Bobby DeRosa of C# Shiznit wrote,
Visual Studio 2005 is a significant improvement over 2003. Visual Studio 2003 lacked the ability to move an ASP.NET web application up to an FTP server from within the IDE. One of the new attributes in 2005 is the built-in Copy Web Site feature that gives you a side-by-side comparison of your local site & your FTP server.
It's OK at best. It's slow to initialize and load - and it doesn't save your password for you. You have to re-enter it every time you bring up the tab - fraking lame. The Synchronize Site feature attempts to synchronize your site - but it doesn't really do that. It goes through each file, compares the local copy to the one on the remote server and if they don't have the same modify date, it asks you which one you want to use. It will ask you this for EVERY file that is different. If you check the Apply to all checkbox, then it simply uploads ALL files, without giving you an overview of what it is going to upload.
It's a pathetic attempt to add site synchronization into the IDE, poorly executed and looks as if it was thrown in last minute.
And so, in December 2005, Bobby ported over a Visual Studio 2003 Add-In he wrote [called Web Deployer] to work with Visual Studio 2005. Well, nearly a year has passed with a few minor revisions here and there, and a completely new version of Web Deployer is being released, now titled Dispatch and built exclusively for Visual Studio 2005. It allows users to quickly and easily upload web applications to an FTP server without ever leaving the IDE and has multiple features to help keep local and remote files in sync.
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