I've found myself switching virtual directories fairly often over the last week or so.  I've done it to deal with shelving in subversion, managing a couple branches and most recently to roll back to specific versions of my code to identify the root cause of a problem.

I don't mind the MMC interface for managing virtual directories but I have to believe that someones already scratched my itch and found/built some quick little tool that manages virtual directories in a simple interface that remembers all the path values for each virtual directory (maybe it lives in my tray and hovering over it gives me a list of virtual directories and current paths).  I'd much rather go to "Default Web Site"/Foo and select from a dropdown (c:\development\foo\webapp, c:\development\foo_shelf\webapp, c:\development\foo_r282\webapp) when I'm comparing differences.

Yes, I could ignore this and create another problem by creating 1/2 dozen virtual directories but either way this seems a clunky process.  Has anyone seen a tool like the one I describe?

[Edit] John Morales pointed me to a tool called IISAdmin that looks promising.

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Posted Wed, Apr 26 2006 9:39 AM by Jeff Schoolcraft