Reverse upgrading a site to 3.5

[fawkes]

I have installed visual web developer 2008 express edition

We run our intranet on a server running windows 2000 and so I can't install .net 3.5 on it and I can't get it upgraded at the moment.

I have edited our intranet and when asked by VWD if I wanted to upgrade the site to 3.5 I did not thinking there would be a problem.

I now have to reverse this upgrade, does anyone know how I can do it?

I've tried just editing the web.config file to be the same as before but it doesn't work.

 

[jmeckley]

hopefully your using some form of version control (vault, svn, vss) if so just roll back to a previous version of the system. If you not, you should seriously consider version control software.

it may be as simple as selecting the targeted framework. right click the project/solution and open properties. somewhere in the tabs is a targeted framework option. select .net 2.0

if that doesn't work, then your in for some "fun".
1. open the solution and project files in a text editor and revert the xml schema by hand.
2. update any code files which may be using the 3.5 syntax sugar.

for more help I would search MSDN or contact MS directly about rolling back.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[fawkes]

Luckily I had an old copy of the web.config file and I removed everything from the new version that wasn't in the old one and changed references to version 2.0 from 3.5

I think I got away with it this time... \

 

[jbenson001]

Next time do a backup first. Also as Jason says, use some sort of version control system.