visual-web-developer

I am wanting to use Visual Web Developer Express 2010 to publish a website, pre-compiled to a remote server over FTP using the following settings: Deploy only files needed to run this application Precompile this application before publishing Allow website to be updatable No databases are being deployed Site is being deployed as file hierarchy, not as .zip package My first build/deploy seemed to have gone well, but after my second compilation I receive the following error: Transformed web.config using C:\path_to_site\Web.Debug.config into obj\Debug\TransformWebConfig\transformed\web.config.

I find it odd that in Visual C# 2008 Express edition, when you use the database explorer, your options are: Microsoft Access SQL Server Compact 3.5, and SQL Server Database File. BUT if you use Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, you can connect to a regular SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, etc. For people developing command-line or other C# apps that need to talk to a SQL Server database, do you really need to build your LINQ/Data Access code with one IDE (Visual Web Developer) and your program in another (Visual C#)? It's not a hard workaround, but it seems weird. If Microsoft wanted to force you to