Today I discovered that Microsoft is answering the community rant against losing web projects in VS 2005.  They have introduced Web Deployment Projects as an add-in for VS 2005.  They have essentially wrapped MS Build into a project type for the web.  Most exciting is that they did us right and took it beyond just providing a way to do exclusions and assembly naming.  My favorite new thing is the ability to do configuration management as part of the build process.  I can now have multiple configuration documents that target different deployment options.  Thank you ScottGu and the ASP.NET team!  This is exactly the kind of thing that we needed!