Conversion from .NET 2002 to .NET 2003

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We currently have a rather large application that is in VB.NET 2002. We have
just purchased licenses to the 2003/1.1 Framework version of Visual Studio.
What kind of conversion, if any, will we need to do to move our application
over to the 2003/1.1 version? We will be moving this application over to
production within a couple of months, and I don't want to push that down
because I have to redo a bunch of stuff. However, I feel it is better going
to the 1.1 Framework now rather than waiting and having to do it after it is
in production.

I am hoping it is simply a matter of deinstalling the 2002 Visual Studio;
installing the 2003 version; then loading our application and it converts
anything as needed. Also, will we need to deinstall our 3rd party tools and
reinstall them? (i.e. we have ActiveReports .NET, TrueDBGrid .NET tool sets,
and the VB.NET Resource Kit. Should we also uninstall and reinstall them?)

Is this true? What is involved? Experiences? Thanks in advance.

Tom
 
* "Tom said:
We currently have a rather large application that is in VB.NET 2002. We have
just purchased licenses to the 2003/1.1 Framework version of Visual Studio.
What kind of conversion, if any, will we need to do to move our application
over to the 2003/1.1 version? We will be moving this application over to
production within a couple of months, and I don't want to push that down
because I have to redo a bunch of stuff. However, I feel it is better going
to the 1.1 Framework now rather than waiting and having to do it after it is
in production.
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..NET Framework changes:

I am hoping it is simply a matter of deinstalling the 2002 Visual Studio;
installing the 2003 version; then loading our application and it converts
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Conversion will be done automatically. VS.NET 2002 and 2003 can be
installed on the same machine, VS.NET 2002 should be installed before
installing version 2003.
 
Thanks, Herfried. Unfortunately, I don't have the disk space to have both
the 2002 and the 2003 versions of VS on my machine at the same time. So I
will have to uninstall the 2002 version and then install the 2003 version.

I assume then that no one has had any conversion issues with the 2002 vs
2003 version change?

Tom
 
Hi Tom

The only problem i had after upgrating was all the
Crystal Reports stopped working !? You have to change the
reference path of your project.

Kind Regards
Jorge
 
There were a few issues I found with 2003. The order of
some of the events for the ComboBox has changed. This
screwed up my lookup-as-you-type functionality I
programmed into my control.

Also, if you have a form and popup another form and keep
the previous in the background (even if it is hidden) then
the Alt-Key combinations don't work properly. For
example, if you have a button with Alt-A on the original
form, and another button with the same Alt-A on the newly
popped up form, the Alt-A won't work at all. You have to
completely unload the original form from memory in order
to get the Alt-A to work on the new form. It only occurs
when you have buttons with the same Alt key combination on
both forms.

I don't remember any other problems (except for the
aforementioned crystal reports issue).

-Lee
 
Hi all:

What if I just continue developing my project using VS2002? I have heard
that only 2003 or above can support WinXP (or higher).......

I hope that it's just a rumor...
 
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