Kevin says:
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>Personally, I prefer XCOPY...it tends to be much less hassle:

Me too. In fact, here's what I do, which you may find helpful.
1. Download and install DropBox on your computer and your client's server.
2. When you're ready to deploy, right click on your website and click "Copy Web Site." Copy it to your local dropbox folder. Dropbox will automatically sync it to their own servers.
3. Log into your client's server (via Terminal Server, LogMeIn, GotoMyPC, whatever). Fire up the browser, log into your DropBox account, and download the folder with your app. Copy it from wherever it downloads into the live site.
- Benefit of this: you have a backup of your former snapshots of the site in your client's download folder, ready to revert if needed.
- Note too, I find if I just copy one file and not the whole folder, I have to change the attributes of the folder to allow script execution. Annoying, and doesn't happen if I do the whole folder.
- Be sure *not* to copy your development web.config file.

Hope this helps,

Eric