I have an ASP.NET application in VS2008 that is growing larger and am developing and testing on IIS7, not Cassini/IIS dev, so when I make changes, I publish, run and test.
The publish is taking longer and longer, since there are more and more builds for different projects within the solution. If I want to make simple changes to say an aspx file, instead of publishing, I just modify the published version to avoid the cost of the publish which is a pain.
Is there a better/faster way? Is there something out there that talks about best practices/efficient publish/run/test techniques for VS2008?
Personally, I just created a virtual site in my IIS running on port 1337 (Ye, I’m a geek, but I find that funny 😛 ), which points to the root of my project. I keep a browser open on localhost:1337, press F6 in VS and then F5 in my browser – no need to publish 🙂
Works like a charm 🙂