Updated Utility: WebDeploy 1.2.2

Following up on my most recent post, WebDeploy (soon to be rebranded) 1.2.2 is ready for public consumption and use. This is mostly a bug fix version like its predecessor, however there is one glaring addition that will make all VS.NET Project Deployers extremely happy, more on that in a bit.

Okay, its a little bit later. Whats the next new big thing? Well, an extra Drop Down List, no I'm not kidding. WebDeploy 1.2.2 introduces a much requested feature, or rather what you like to call a bug. The omission of the deployment files in the bin folder. This was such a major challenge on determining how to include this functionality, because there is no easy way of determining the active configuration via the project file. And, because this tool has become more versatile than just a web application deployment tool, a way was needed for the deployer to actually determine what configuration should be used.

So, whenever you load up a VS.NET project file, a drop down list is pre-populated with your various configurations. Now, as you may guess, this isn't such a great big deal for web applications, because we can just point to /bin by default. However, since I wanted the flexibility, and windows apps are compiled into /bin/debug and /bin/release (or any other customized structure you want), this needed to be built in.

Okay, enough rambling for now, and check out the changelog:

• Added VS.NET Project Configuration Selection to ensure assemblies in /bin are copied.
• Fixed new Quick Deploy Profile's default extensions
• Fixed column sorting for date/time types.
• Fixed minimizing to system tray issues, and not restoring normally.
• Fixed exception being thrown with FireFox 0.92 as default browser on Windows 2000 when accessing a website through WebDeploy.

Now, I bet you want a link? Okay.