aspnet_merge.exe exited with code 1 - read on... There are a few good articles around that describe the differences between the default Web project in VS2005, and Web Application Projects (which are included with SP1 now). Having come from custom scripts using XCOPY in VS 2003 - I was comfortable with the Web Application Project model - knowing that the site would be compiled into a single DLL which along with all the required files to run the site - could just be copied/XCOPYd/FTPd into production.

Discovered Mike Ormond's blog after the MSDN Roadshow - which in turn led me to this definitive article on ASP.Net Viewstate from Dave Reed. Mandatory reading.

Having recently moved my DasBlog tech blog from one domain to another I wanted an easy way to redirect all the traffic from the old domain, to the new one.
My shared hosting provider doesn’t provide directory level redirects (although this can be done in IIS) – only domain level.

As site I’ve been working on recently required that all pages be XHTML Transitional compliant, with one exception. A special document page of the site needed to be in XHTML Strict format. 
 
The problem was how to get ASP.Net 2.0 to render all the pages in the site as Transitional, while rendering the special page as Strict.
 
Setting the xhtmlConformance option as bellow in the system.web section - will render all controls and pages as Transitional.