Although Visual Web Developer 2008 makes it convenient to connect to a remote site, doing so with the built-in FTP client is a pain in the butt. There's something wrong with the VS-embedded module that handles FTP transfers. Am I the only one seeing slow screen painting and refresh in this client app? It's like everything is working at quarter speed on a single thread. It comes to a dead stop for no reason.
It's unfortunate to see such a poor implementation dragging down a fine developer tool. It's not like FTP is new technology. My ancient version of WS_FTP is far more efficient than the transfer software in VWD 2008.
The Copy Web Site/FTP feature deserves a hotfix, and if that's not possible, I hope Microsoft can address it in the first Visual Studio 2008/Visual Web Developer service pack.