As a web developer with many sites, it quickly became a major time consuming problem to keep them all updated with the latest code. Visual Studio has never had a good solution for deploying the necessary files (and only the necessary files) directly to a web server.
Sure, they provide a feeble attempt at an FTP synchronization tool, but this tool has never really proved to be anything more than an integrated FTP client, leaving the developer to manually upload the files that need to be uploaded, updating configuration files for the remote server, and most importantly, ensuring that nothing gets overwritten that shouldn't be. More...