Hi Mitchel, thanx for your reply. I also think it's a risky job, but worth to try. Uploading content like images is easy, but if you also have javascript that injects script in pages and uses certain controls on the page, then things quickly get very tedious when talking host site actualizations.
The one thing to note for new users like me is that you appearently cannot expect the Starter Kit to install the same way as the Source Package does. But then again... from a developer's point of view I would expect a way since the Starter Kit is so easy to set up using VS.NET 2005, and should be transferred easily to the host.
Then my next Q would be: so why on earth are they so different? There's no reason why they should be so different, and I'd kindly suggest to the different teams looking at how to make the versions more interoperable. It should be possible to transfer a DB (and templates, images, script files, etc.) to a Source Package that our host installed for us (I have no way of running a VS.NET 2005 generated website on my host, I did try it but there's no way it connects to the DB in App_Data), and just changing the connection string and site alias would suffice. Or if it's more complicated then a Wizard would do the various things to check before transfer occurs.
Now I'm thinking: I have to install the Source Package of 4.5.3 locally first, then I may be lucky just by copying the database into App_Data, and then modifying the connection string and site alias? Would that work? If so, then I have local and host site sincronized, and can freely update the database etc. on the host. Would that work? Anyone who has experience doing this?