Today I did my first billable work as an independent
since being let go last Friday, migrating a .NET 1.1 site to .NET 2.0 for a client of my ex-employer. Seemed a good time to move to the
VS2005 Web Application Project RC1.
I used both the December 2005 and February 2006 V1 and V2 versions--successfully, I might add--but I didn't want to go
through the process (again) of manually converting a VS2003 Web Application to a VS2005 Web Application Project. The RC1 was supposed to do that automatically. I wanted to eliminate any GUID exposure this time, if at all possible.
As with the V2 VS2005 Web Application update, I uninstalled the previous version from the Control Panel and installed the new, only to discover this time that I needed to install a VS2005 Update to support Web Application Projects. The VS2005 Update was not part of the .MSI and is available at
Microsoft Downloads here, a bit disconcerting since the first machine I installed it on wasn't connected directly to the Internet. The second install on a machine that was connected to the net brought URL and VS2005 Update Joy, for both the connected and non-connected spiritual machines on my office network.
I'll cut to the chase. The VS2005 Update install was squirrelly. Be patient with it. "Only click once!" You'll think its dead, but its really alive and updating. You'll see the two windows below...for quite a while perhaps. The Web Application Project installation wizard was dreamy as before.
Enough on the installation. The main point was that the ASP.NET 1.1 migration to the VS2005 Web Application Project was FLAWLESS. Better than that, it was completely automatic as ScottGu had promised.
So be free, my children. Come to where the flavor is. Come to
VS2005 Web Application Project RC1 Country!
[tags: ASP.NET, ScottGu, Microsoft]