Visual Studio 2005 web site types

A Visual Studio 2005 web site can take one of the following types:

File-based
Web pages are placed on an arbitrary folder. To run these projects, Visual Studio temporarily creates ASP.NET development server that is capable of running the application without the need to local IIS. This is particularly suitable for the machines that do not include IIS. Windows XP Home edition is one of the examples of these machines.

FTP-based
The web pages reside on a server that is accessible via FTP services.

Local HTTP
This type is what web application were in Visual Studio 2003 and programmers are more used to this type. In this type, all the web pages reside on a server IIS virtual directory.

Remote HTTP
If this type is used, web files are accessible using Front Page Server Extensions.

When creating a web site, you can specify the type on location drop-down list.