I really like web deployment projects. However when I recently had to reinstall Visual Studio I realized I'd forgotten how to set Visual Studio up to support web deployment projects.

A little research revealed that The old way has been updated and it's now no longer necessary to first apply a patch. Just make sure you're at Visual Studio SP1 and install this addin: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336619.aspx