Summary

ASP.NET 4 brings with it quite a few new features to make the act of developing websites easier, more reliable, even faster and more scalable. However, as an added bonus, we now also have the ability to create web deployment packages that bundle up our web applications along with all their configuration, dependencies, and prerequisites. These packages can be deployed to IIS servers by developers, administrators, or command-line scripts and dramatically ease the burden of deploying web applications.

In addition, we also have the ability to create one-click publication profiles that enable us to take these web packages and deploy them on-demand just by clicking a button inside Visual Studio.

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