Hello all

Does anybody have experience of using DNN  with the Web Deployment Project component (WDP) for Visual Studio? I currently use the WDP in VS2005 to rebuild websites after changes, which involves a full 'pre-compiled' version of the development web-app gettiing automatically deployed into a different 'production' web-site on the web server - it does this by compiling all DLL projects in the VS Solution, compiling and copying across all the ASP.NET pages as pre-compiled .aspx files, and modifying .config files in order to point to production databases, rather than my development databases.

With my current site, there is CMS capability available to non-technical users. I'm wondering if I could start to build a new web-site using the DNN starter kit in VS, and still deploy in the same way using the WDP. Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick, because DNN can already account for this sort of deployment of a development site into a production site? If it is possible to use both, does anybody know how I would go about setting up VS to use both DNN and WDP? E.g., can I simply add a WDP into a 'DNN-aware' solution created with the starter kit in VS?

Regards

 DNN includes its own packaging format for extensions, which is not compatible with WDP

no there currently is no staging support.