Hi James,

I think you want to use the "Copy Web Site" to deploy your new web site to
the target server, if so, I suggest you use the "Publish Web
Site"(Build\Publish Web Site) to achieve this in VS2005.

Visual Studio 2005 makes the process of moving a development Web site to a
staging or production server easier and different from its earlier
versions. In VS2003, the primary ways to deploy the files were by using the
Copy Project utility, but in VS2005, there is a new utility Publish Web
Site, which compiles your Web site into a set of executable files. With
that you can copy the files using any method you choose to the target
server. Please refer to the following MSDN doc for details:

Publishing Web Sites
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/377y0s6t.aspx

By the way, the VS2005's Copy Web Site utility is similar to an FTP
utility, you can open a folder on a target server, and then upload and
download files respectively between the current Web site and the target Web
site, please also refer the corresponding MSDN documentation for it:

Copying Web Sites with the Copy Web Site Tool  
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1cc82atw.aspx

Thanks for your understanding!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
Microsoft Community Support
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