VS2005 Project System - the story

Scott Guthrie just posted all the juicy details about the ASP.NET 2.0 and VS2005 project system and tools support.  This post addresses a lot of the issues that people have been facing with the Beta 2 version of the product and shows all the changes/fixes we've implemented between Beta 2 and RTM that directly address customer feedback that we've seen.  Let us know what you think!

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 22, 2005
  I've made a long post to Scott's blog that details the fact that I still have a lot of complaints. It hasn't shown up yet - apparently Scott's unqueueing comments once he's got an answer to them - but the key problems as I see it are:
  
  - It's ok for new projects but people need backward compatibility.
  - A migration wizard is absolutely no use if you have generated code because it can never figure out the input format to the code generator.
  - Renaming files to ".exclude" to exclude them is evil because the name might be important. (None of the workarounds posted so far are anywhere near sufficient)
  - Forcing me to separate the code and UI files that are related to each other (inside and outside of App_Code respectively) specifically breaks modularity; don't act like you know more than I do as far as what a good folder structure for my project is.
  - (to summarize) - The right thing to do would be to give us back the old project system as an option. Some of us liked it!
• Anonymous
  March 21, 2006
  Your site is very informational for me. Nice work.