From 1.1 to 3.5 - Project Types

[Smithers]

In a "nut shell", what are the primary / high-level differences between the
following project types available in Visual Studio 2008:

1. ASP.NET Web Site
created via File | New | Web Site

as compared to...

2. ASP.NET Web application
created via File | New | Project

Is the "Web Site" the project type that I heard lots of people griping about
in VS2005? I missed that whole thing because I've been maintaining a 1.1
project. Now we're going to .NET 3.5 / VS2008 and want to make a good
decision on which type of project we should use.

Thanks

 

[Jayakrishnan]

In a "nut shell", what are the primary / high-level differences between the
following project types available in Visual Studio 2008:

1. ASP.NET Web Site
created via File | New | Web Site

as compared to...

2. ASP.NET Web application
created via File | New | Project

Is the "Web Site" the project type that I heard lots of people griping about
in VS2005? I missed that whole thing because I've been maintaining a 1.1
project. Now we're going to .NET 3.5 / VS2008 and want to make a good
decision on which type of project we should use.

Thanks

In VS 2008(orcas) we can maintain 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5 projects. The GUI
supports all versions of project. Go and use VS 2008.

Jay

 

[RB]

In a "nut shell", what are the primary / high-level differences between the
following project types available in Visual Studio 2008:

1. ASP.NET Web Site
created via File | New | Web Site

as compared to...

2. ASP.NET Web application
created via File | New | Project

Is the "Web Site" the project type that I heard lots of people griping about
in VS2005? I missed that whole thing because I've been maintaining a 1.1
project. Now we're going to .NET 3.5 / VS2008 and want to make a good
decision on which type of project we should use.

Thanks

Hi Smithers,

One difference I noticed is that there doesn't appear to be a project
file associated with a web-site in 2005/8. This makes it much harder to,
for example, turn Option Strict On, as you need to do add it to every file.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong by the way - this is a feature
that's really annoying me, and I feel that I'm missing something obvious!!!

Cheers,

RB.

 

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

In VS 2008(orcas) we can maintain 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5 projects.

Not 1.1 - that's dead and gone:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/06/20/vs-2008-multi-targeting-support.aspx