Dynamically setting the IISUrl of a Web Application Project

Question

I have a web application project that I\'d like to be able to branch and develop on a totally separate IIS site and not have to keep editing the vbproj IISUrl setting each time

Answer 1

I've been plagued by the same problem for several years now. The problem persists all the way from Visual Studio .NET (2003) up until now (VS 2010). I have searched for an automated solution for automatic URL renaming but without any success.

What I've been doing to avoid this problem is branching way more and having lots of different workspaces:

Root branch for ongoing project -> Branch for dev-team -> Branch for support and long-term code integrity (this is the most commonly used branch by me) -> My personal custom branches that have different URLs set

I know it's not the best solution but this is the best one that I could figure out.