I have an ASP.NET 2 Website that I need to deploy using Visual Studio 2012. I need a compiled single Assembly.
The latest version of the publish feature (described here and available with the Azure 1.8 SDK) now supports pre-compilation for both Web Site projects and Web Application projects. This is the replacement for Web Deployment Projects, which was previously available for VS2005/2008/2010. It also supports all of the publish scenarios equally for both types of projects (e.g. web.config transforms, database deployment, etc...).