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Visual studio 2005 upgrade
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Um, do you need 2005? There are new controls and features, such as master pages, and generics. Without knowing what you do, and what your company plans to do however, no one can say if you need to.
If you do upgrade however, chech that your PC can support the upgrade as well...
If you do upgrade however, chech that your PC can support the upgrade as well...
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this is a good starting point.
If you need to convience your supervisor that a VS2005 upgrade is necessary focus on the areas you use the most.
I assume you use asp.net 1.1 now since your posting in this forum. there were many, many upgrades for asp.net which makes RAD even easier than before.
DataSource contorls
2 way data binding
GridView/FormView ehancements (replaces DataGrid and similar contorls).
not specific to asp.net but still worth noting are Generics great for creating collections. Property Overloads for implict casting.
There are many more enhancements that are escaping me right now. (Last I worked with 1.1 was 2004).
There are also many new projects related to the .net framework. MS AJAX 1.0, Enterprise Libary 2.0, Most 3rd party tools also integrate with .net 2.0.
And for furture reference .net 3.x is backwards compatiable with .net 2.0. So future upgrades won't require massive recoding/converting like 1.1. to 2.0.
Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.
If you need to convience your supervisor that a VS2005 upgrade is necessary focus on the areas you use the most.
I assume you use asp.net 1.1 now since your posting in this forum. there were many, many upgrades for asp.net which makes RAD even easier than before.
DataSource contorls
2 way data binding
GridView/FormView ehancements (replaces DataGrid and similar contorls).
not specific to asp.net but still worth noting are Generics great for creating collections. Property Overloads for implict casting.
There are many more enhancements that are escaping me right now. (Last I worked with 1.1 was 2004).
There are also many new projects related to the .net framework. MS AJAX 1.0, Enterprise Libary 2.0, Most 3rd party tools also integrate with .net 2.0.
And for furture reference .net 3.x is backwards compatiable with .net 2.0. So future upgrades won't require massive recoding/converting like 1.1. to 2.0.
Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.
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they released SP1 for VS2005. It's a 500Mb download and takes about 30 - 60 minutes to install after that. The 2 biggest areas of improvement are better response times switching from Design to Code view and web application projects are now a standard option when designing a website. (instead of just the website project).
If you don't have this yet and you want to install it make sure your running under an administrator account and turn off virus protection. This will reduce the install time.
Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.
If you don't have this yet and you want to install it make sure your running under an administrator account and turn off virus protection. This will reduce the install time.
Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.
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