I upgraded our company Intranet site to VS2005 today. It's a big deal because it has about 5 years worth of code representing various stages in my .NET evolution, some stages more scary than others. The Solution consists of a Web Project and three supporting Class Library Projects.
I uninstalled the version of ASP.NET Web Application Project VS2005 package I was using (the V1 Preview) and installed the
Beta V2 Preview. Then I followed ScottGu's
excellent instructions in how to upgrade my VS2003 site to a VS2005 ASP.NET Web Application.
The short of it is that everything went very smoothly and I'm a happy nerd to be working in VS2005 for almost all of my projects now.
But what's REALLY fantastic in my book is that Microsoft's ASP.NET Team headed up by Scott Guthrie releases a substantially different Web Project model in VS2005 that they committed a lot of time and sweat to, and their efforts were a huge success, strictly technologically speaking. And still, they listen to the pleas of the Web Developer Community to support the VS2003 Web Project Model in VS2005 and...wait for it...THEY DO! And with an EXCELLENT VS2005 Web Application Project model. They could have said to developers, "we're smarter than you. We're Microsoft. The VS2005 Web Project is better. Deal with it." But they didn't. They didn't because Scott Guthrie is wise beyond his years, listens to his users and his company's clients, is one of the hardest working guys on the Microsoft payroll, and still my hero.
[tags: ScottGu, ASP.NET]