match files to dll

Question

say you have a huge compiled asp.net site on a live server and a development server. you make changes to a few files on dev and compile...now you want to publish those changes without copying up the whole site...just compiled stuff in /bin that has changed.

anyone know of a good way to automate this?

was thinking would be nice if you could somehow associate the source files you changed with the files in /bin that are dependent on them, either at compile time or after.

Answer 1

For VS2010 you can use Web Deployment.

Here's the Web Deployment article for VS2008.

And, finally, if you are unfortunate enough to be using VS2005, you can find that information here

Answer 2

I think you can use a synhronization tool like microsoft sync toy, or use xcopy with /d param in postbuild options or robocopy.