>I've been trying to research this and came upon the question on the ASP.NET forums, with a reply from Scott Guthrie about a VS add-in called the "Web Deployment Projects". He also had a link to Rick's compile utility. I'm not at the point yet of utilizing this stuff (I've only just now begun researching what I need to do to migrate everything to 2.0), so I don't know how well any of this works, but perhaps you haven't stumbled across any of this yet.
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>Here's the link to the thread on the forum :
>http://forums.asp.net/1168723/ShowPost.aspx
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>Check out Scott's reply and his links to his blog and Rick's.

Yes, I understand that automation could apply here with tools like Rick provides or something else. But, the biggest problem I faced recently was to keep the ability to have multiple Web Services running in the same directory. If I compile, they end up with App_Code.dll so this means you can only have one Web Service in the same directory. So, when I faced that, I adjusted to simply upload the vb files on the server and avoid using the App_Code.dll file. This has turned out to work very well and is much simpler to manage.