Migrating to .NET 2.0

[Vlad Gabovich]

Got this question - I am working in a company that has been using VS2003 and the older .NET framework for all its projects; I want to experiment with web-development, ASP 2.0 but I am wary of any compatibility problems. If I install the 2.0 SDK and continue to use VS2003 and projects developed in previous .NET, should everything work fine, or should I expect some issues? Thanks in advance..

[Josh Smith]

You can't compile against v2.0 of the .NET framework from within VS2003. You need to use VS2005. I can't give any advice regarding ASP.NET 1.1 -> 2.0 conversions (I'm a WinForms guy). Moving from .NET 1.1 to 2.0 in general, however, should not pose any problems for you. I do find VS2005 to be rather slow, though. Then again, I pretty much only use it for WinFx dev (which is still beta bits!). :zzz: Josh

[Kevin McFarlane]

You shouldn't have any problems. However, if you try to upgrade a web project from 2003 to 2005 expect lots of problems. Where I work a colleague has been experimenting with that to see what the isues will be when they eventually try and upgrade their projects. It appears to be a hard slog! Kevin

[Guffa]

It works just fine. I have both VS 2003 and VS 2005 installed, and never experienced any problems with it. I can have them both running at the same time even. --- b { font-weight: normal; }