Scripting ASP.NET Builds and Deployments

Without a doubt, Visual Studio .NET and ASP.NET have made developing web applications less arduous. But VS .NET doesn't solve the hassle of building and deploying a production-grade website without human intervention. Fortunately, other tools are close at hand to help address this shortcoming. One such tool is scripting. In this article, author Tom Fischer demonstrates how to employ VBScript, running under the aegis of the Windows Script Host (WSH), to automate some of the tasks required to get a complex web application out the door.