Unleash It

written by Scott Watermasysk on Thursday, October 11 2007

I am going to try to make "easy things" a recurring theme here.

Today's "easy thing", is Unleash It.

...is a utility built with web developers in mind. It started as a simple application that would allow you to transfer files from one directory to another based on their file extension. Due to the growing nature of successful applications, and the need for more options, Unleash It grew to being able to transfer files based on a source directory or a Visual Studio Project to a destination directory, FTP site, or zip file.

Unleash It screen shot

Although it does not look like there has been an update to it since December of 2004, it works and works very well. If you have ever gone through a web project and had to delete tons of .cs files (or subversion files) this is the tool for you. You can choose the file types to include (and exclude), whether to use a project file or not, and what to do with the deployment (folder, FTP, or zip).  Highly recommended!

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Comments

  • Matt Hawley on on 10.25.2007 at 3:15 AM

    Matt Hawley avatar

    Thanks Scott :) Yup - no need to update it when it's still solid!

  • Peter Mescalchin on on 10.25.2007 at 5:36 AM

    Peter Mescalchin avatar

    I find that using Rsync to deploy web applications live is the easiest solution. Only copies the diff's and fully syncs removed/orphan files, meaning transfers are really bandwidth efficient. I read that ver 3.0 is just around the corner and improves on what is a stellar utility.

    win32 builds can be found at http://www.itefix.no/cwrsync/

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