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That would work fine although it doesn't offer very much more than Visual Web
Developer Express Edition, which is free.

If you are feeling realy masacistic there is nothing stopping you writing
ASP.net 2.0 aplications in notepad.
 
Temporary offer, but this might be what you're looking for.

I've already listened to about 5 web sessions. They're pretty good.


Microsoft, Dr. Dobbs, and O'Reilly are offering some great ASP.NET 2.0
training as well as a free copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition if
you view 3 webcasts. I've already registered and thought you might be
interested, too. You can see what's available at

http://www.learn2asp.net/campaign.aspx
 
That would work fine although it doesn't offer very much more than Visual
Web
Developer Express Edition, which is free.
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If you only work on web applications, is there any compelling reason to go
with VS'05 over VWD Express? I'm still fuzzy on the specific differences
between them.

-Darrel
 
re:
If you only work on web applications, is there any compelling reason to go with VS'05 over VWD
Express? I'm still fuzzy on the specific differences between them.
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You can't develop desktop and console apps with VWD.

Here's a list of the main differences between VWD and VS 2005 :

a) Class Library Project Support (note: you can build classes with VWD
-- but you can't compile them into a standalone assembly directly in the IDE).

b) Web Compilation Support (note: you get full intellisense and compilation checking on
F5/Ctrl-F5 with VWD -- you just can't pre-compile the site into a single set of compiled DLLs
for deployment without source files).

c) Source control support (integrated IDE support is only available in higher VS skus)

d) Mobile Web Support (no WYSIWYG support for mobile controls)

e) Accessibility checker (ASP.NET will emit 508/WCAG accessible markup
-- but express doesn't include the built-in accessibility checker for the IDE)

f) Localization support (this is provided at runtime by ASP.NET -- but express doesn't
include the built-in resource stripping functionality to easily localize sites; note that VWD
itself will be localized into 8 separate languages).

g) Unit Testing support (both class and web project unit testing are only available in the higher
skus).

h) Class Designer

i) Web Load Testing

j) Remote Debugging (note: local debugging - including to IIS -- is fully supported)

k) Windows Forms and Console Library Support

HTH...



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b) Web Compilation Support (note: you get full intellisense and
compilation checking on
F5/Ctrl-F5 with VWD -- you just can't pre-compile the site into a single
set of compiled DLLs
for deployment without source files).
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That seems like the main drawback. Thanks for the info!

-Darrel
 
darrel said:
That seems like the main drawback. Thanks for the info!

-Darrel
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Can't you just use aspnet_compiler -p "MyDevDir" -f -v /
e:\OutputFolder ?

That's what I do, and I don't use any flavour of Visual Studio. Stick
it in a batch file and you don't need to worry about it, just hook it
up to a keyboard shortcut in your IDE of choice.
 
no.


darrel said:
If you only work on web applications, is there any compelling reason to go with VS'05 over VWD Express? I'm still fuzzy on the
specific differences between them.

-Darrel
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warning! warning! warning!

- most are in C#


sloan said:
Temporary offer, but this might be what you're looking for.

I've already listened to about 5 web sessions. They're pretty good.


Microsoft, Dr. Dobbs, and O'Reilly are offering some great ASP.NET 2.0
training as well as a free copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition if
you view 3 webcasts. I've already registered and thought you might be
interested, too. You can see what's available at

http://www.learn2asp.net/campaign.aspx
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