Scott Guthrie has done it again with the release of the VS2005 Web Application Project to support the VS2003 ASP.NET model and to facilitate migration of existing 1.1 apps to 2.0.
I'm not much of a "technology preview release" kind of guy,
as Scott described the current state of the VS2005 Web Application Project, but as I always say, when it comes to ASP.NET, if you can't trust ScottGu, who CAN you trust??? Am I right or am I right or am I right? (Groundhog Day...)
The
tutorials are EXCELLENT, particularly on how to prep an existing 1.1 project for migration to 2.0. The VS2005 Web Application Project is perfect for migrating existing ASP.NET apps to 2.0 because it's identical to the familiar VS2003 ASP.NET experience. I used the VS2005 Web Application Project to migrate the last piece of a Web/Windows application to VS2005 and as a result my project is 100% .NET 2.0. Woo-hoo! For new projects I would definitely go with the new VS2005 ASP.NET model, but the VS2005 Web Application Project Scott provides us with is an extremely valuable service to the developer community to support our transition to VS2005.
I read through the comments to Scott's post
announcing the tutorials and someone with the handle "ML" said
This culture of community involevement that ASP.NET team champions should be spread to the rest of Microsoft. You are the perfect example of a leader that leads by example. Don't mean to kiss ass but you guys really have changed the image I had about microsoft. The ASP.NET team rocks!!!!We all know some ScottGu ass kissing is in order, but "ML" actually had the guts to say it.
Thanks for more ASP.NET Goodness, ScottGu!
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