"VS 2005 Web Application Project V1.0 Released"

ScottGu’s Blog - VS 2005 Web Application Project V1.0 Released

"I am very happy to announce that the final release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project is now available.You can download it for free here.

 

The VS 2005 Web Application Project option provides an alternate web project model option to the VS 2005 Web Site Project Model that ships built-into VS 2005.VS 2005 Web Application Projects support the same project, build and compilation semantics as the VS 2003 web project model.Specifically:

• All files contained within the project are defined within a project file (as well as the assembly references and other project meta-data settings).Files under the web’s file-system root that are not defined in the project file are not considered part of the web project.

• All code files within the project are compiled into a single assembly that is built and persisted in the \bin directory on each compile.Incremental publishing of compiled apps is fully supported within the IDE (see this post for details).

• The compilation system uses a standard MSBuild based compilation process.This can be extended and customized using MSBuild extensibility rules.You can control the build through the property pages, name the output assembly or add pre- and post-build action rules.It can also provide much faster compile times for large web projects.

Because the VS 2005 Web Application Project model has the same conceptual semantics as the VS 2003 Web Project Model, it also makes migrating VS 2003 web projects very, very easy - with zero/minimal code changes required. ...

 

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The main feature additions with the final VS 2005 Web Application Release (above and beyond all the features in the release candidate that you can read about here) include:

• Team Build Support with VSTS: You can now perform automated and command-line builds with VS 2005 Web Application Projects and VSTS
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• Edit and Continue Support: You can now make code updates that apply immediately to applications while the debugger is attached and running (see walkthrough below for details).This is supported with both VB and C# projects.

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Very cool.

I’m sure this will be posted everywhere today, but I want to capture the download URL... (so it goes into my remote indexed memory store... i.e. my blog ;)