Visual Studio 2003 compatibility with original Visual Studio .Net

[Geoff Pennington]

My old laptop has the original version of Visual Studio .Net running on
Windows 2000. My new laptop has Visual Studio .Net 2003 running on Windows
XP. I imported an existing Web project to the new laptop, made some
modifications, rebuilt the project, and pushed the changes, including the
DLL and PDB files, to our "test and QA" server. The application blew up on
the first screen; the error was something like "unable to find the query
string collection object". I copied the changed .aspx and .aspx.vb files
back to the old laptop, rebuilt the project, and again pushed all changes,
including the DLL and PDB files, to the "test and QA" server. This time, no
problem.

What do I have to do so that our servers, including our client's production
servers, can run applications developed with VS .Net 2003?

Much obliged.

 

[Cowboy]

Install Framework 1.1 is the easiest way. It installs side-by-side with 1.0,
so you can continue to have 1.0 apps running. Note, however, that you will
have to set up 1.0 apps to use 1.0 by using aspnet_regiis on the specific
webs that are still 1.0.

NOTE: Most will upgrade to 1.1 without issue, so you will only have to
"downgrade" those that fail under 1.1.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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[Geoff Pennington]

All three machines (old and new laptops, plus the server throwing the error)
have .Net Framework 1.1 version 1.1.4322. I checked that out in the
Add/Remove Programs option for each machine. The new laptop never had
anything but Visual Studio 2003 installed, but the other two have only the
original .Net Studio. Framework 1.1 was installed on them separately. I'm
wondering if Framework 1.1 was never "turned on" for the two older machines,
even though it was installed? What do you think?