What is the advantage of packaging over xcopy in .NET?
Xcopy technique is to simply copy your web application files to the production server hard drive and set a virtual directory there. The setting of a virtual directory is needed by several deployment schemes and can be achieved from Internet Information Manager Microsoft Management Consol.
It's always desirable to package your web applications such that they are easy to deploy on the production server then the traditional xcopy in which the developers have to use the command line.
05-30-2009, 10:06 AM
What is the advantage of packaging over xcopy in .NET?
