Visual Studio 2005 Web Development Projects (Beta Preview) is now available for download.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wdp/default.aspx

This add-in tool provides additional functionality for building and deploying web applications created in ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Scott Guthrie has a nice writeup on this new tool.  Among the features highlighted are:

1. More control over the number of assemblies generated by a pre-compiled web project, and control over their naming.
2. Ability to utilize the full power of MSBuild to customize build processes.
3. Ability to define and use custom build-configurations inside VS, and define per-build configuration options.
4. Ability to customize and modify a web application's web.config file at deployment.

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