Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects and Web Deployment Projects

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Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects and Web Deployment Projects

Ever wondered where the "File - New - Project - ASP.NET Web Application" Icon went off in Visual Studio 2005, while it was there in Visual Studio.NET 2003 and earlier versions?

Visual Studio 2005 Development Team just thought that they could provide a newer option for creating web sites. So, it is actually moved to "File - New Website - ASP.NET Website" and the same holds good for ASP.NET Webservice". The other reason behind this might just be the compilation model for ASP.NET Applications which has been totally shifted to ASP.NET rather than Visual Studio. Now, both the ASPX Pages and the Code Files are compiled dynamically.

For more quick facts about Visual Studio 2005, check my earlier article Quick Facts about Visual Studio 2005 - Did you know?

However, if you are still in love with the older way and want to create Web Applications by chosing "File -New - Project" option, there has been a VS 2005 Web Application Project utility released by Microsoft. Scott Gu has a detailed coverage and download link for the same, in this recent Post. You can read the article and also download the project from here.

This option is just an add-in to Visual Studio 2005 and doesnt replace the "File - New - Website" Model. In fact, both the models are going to be included and supported in the future releases of Visual Studio.

Similarly, if you are fond of the older way of deploying files (Single BIN Folder with assemblies and ASPX Pages), there is a VS 2005 Web Deployment Project Utility which would help you in making your deployment in a traditional way that you have been doing with earleir Visual Studio .NET versions.

For a detailed article on Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Project Enhancements, check Wayne Brantley's article

Cheers and Happy Programming !!!

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# re: Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects and Web Deployment Projects

Any idea if they will build support for publishing projects using WebDAV? I see they put that in Expressions Web designer and FP 2003 but its not in Studio and that seems odd to me.

Left by Jeff Allen on Jun 16, 2006 5:19 PM

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Automated printing of SQL Server Reports

Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 come with a ReportViewer control, which you can embed on a form of your own design, and this has a PrintDialog method you can call to make it show the Print dialog box, so the user can choose how many copies of which pages and on which printer to output them.

Left by Cheap Car Rental on Jan 24, 2010 12:06 AM

# re: Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects and Web Deployment Projects

Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects provide a companion Web project model option that can be used as an alternative to the built-in Web site based project model. When creating a new Web application, the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects model uses the same conceptual semantics as the Visual Studio 2003 Web project model, making it easier to convert and work with projects originally created in Visual Studio 2003.

Left by Mens Ties on Feb 25, 2010 4:27 PM