Understanding Solutions and Projects

[Guest]

We have a web site (intranet) that was created in VS 2003. The site is made
up of mulitple projects. In VS 2003 we setup each part of the website as its
own project/solution. In short we have a main root directory where the main
website stuff is, then we have sub webs that contain parts/portions of our
website. Every subweb is its own solution project, with its own setup.

We have recently started upgrading to VS 2005 and I am wondering if we
should change how we have this setup. Is it common to have 1 solution and to
include all of the projects (sub webs) within that solution. Is there a guide
on how to move the projects into one solution (keeping the directory
integrity, etc)? If so, then do we create 1 deployemnt msi to install the
entire website eveytime we have a change?

I was just wondering what is common.

Thank you,

 

[sloan]

Make sure you get VS2005 SP1 ~before upgrading.

Then give it a shot.

 

[clintonG]

FYI, the VS dev team attempted to reinvent the way VS2005 solutions and
projects were conceptually and functionally implemented. This caused so much
grief that the VS dev team was compelled to make it possible to use VS2005
the same way as VS2003 when VS2005 SP1 was released. There are some
documents you can find that attempt to explain the differences or ask for
additional references at news://microsoft.public.vsnet.general.

 

[Guest]

I caught the upgrade to SP1 and I have done it. My question is more
conceptional. We have an intranet with several subwebs. Should the intranet
be one solution with several projects, or should we continue having separate
solutions for each sub-web? I guess it comes down to how you organize within
your corporation, but we currently are not using multiple porjects within
solutions and I wondered if we were missing something.

I thought it might make sense to make one solution and then have all the sub
webs as projects, then everything is together. The problems I see is with
compiling everythingtogether, compile time is longer, I would reinstall the
web everytime we made a change, and probably other problems that I would find
when doing the conversion.

Just wondering what the community thoughts were on this.

Thank you.

 

[clintonG]

I'm not very experienced in this context as I don't work in corporate. Find
Scott Gu's blog as I'm confident he blogged about the conceptual approches
as have others.