Does the whole .tmp, wwroot$, file share debacle, come down to.....

[John Sitka]

establishing a proper hidden share when you move the default website
location then typing it in everytime a web server fails to be found.

I don't know how to summarize this post except to link
http://www.iisfaq.com/default.aspx?View=A538&P=198

anyways it affected tons of folks and was directly linked (I think) to
VS.NETs affinity for wwwroot$ and turning
http://192.168.0.10/WebApplication1
\\192.168.0.10\wwwroot$\WebApplication1

Was there ever a baseline FAQ's established for this behaviour?