Will Web Deployment Projects still be available in Visual Studio 2012?

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m-smith picture m-smith · Jun 27, 2012 · Viewed 20.5k times · Source

It looks like Visual Studio 2012 will not include Visual Studio Setup and Deployment Projects according to MSDN, so I'm currently learning WiX.

Will this loss of functionality extend to Web Deployment Projects?

Answer

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi picture Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi · Aug 21, 2012

Web Deployment Projects will NOT be available in VS2012.

Instead we will focus on bringing first class publishing support for Website projects. You can read more details at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/08/06/plans-regarding-website-projects-and-web-deployment-projects.aspx. In a nutshell, you will have all the same features that WDP has, but a lot more as well. Also another good thing about this is that we will have one experience for both Web App Project as well as Website Project. So when we make enhancements both project systems get it.

If you had any customizations in your WDP, you should be able to copy/paste those into the new web publish profiles (they are MSBuild as well). Take a look at the blog above and please do let me know if you have any concerns.

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