First Preview Download of VS 2005 Web Application Project Model Now Available

Preview Available of VS2005 Web Project Model

Jeff W. Barnes — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:32:32 GMT

The initial preview of the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Model is now available.&nbsp; However,...

re: First Preview Download of VS 2005 Web Application Project Model Now Available

Perry Ismangil — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:29:00 GMT

Scott,

Excellent, we were dreading the day when we have to migrate our massive web app to VS2005 later this year... but this will make it a breeze. Also fixes a lot of issue with bin folders being checked in source control. With the web app model it is clear what is included and what is excluded.

re: First Preview Download of VS 2005 Web Application Project Model Now Available

scottgu — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:06:00 GMT

Hi Gary,

Yes -- this new project model option compiles everything in the project into a single assembly. This avoids the need to generate stubs at all, and allows standalone class files to reference user-controls and pages directly.

Hope this helps,

Scott

re: First Preview Download of VS 2005 Web Application Project Model Now Available

Gary Davis — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:41:00 GMT

Will the Web App Project Model solve the Code Behind issues described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/migration/asp2mig/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/conversionissuesasp_net.asp

See Part 2, Issue 2 (Stand-alone class file (SA–CB) references) of the above document. I encountered these during conversion of a web project and found them very confusing with the need of the Stubs, for example.

Thanks,
Gary

re: First Preview Download of VS 2005 Web Application Project Model Now Available

Katie Gibson — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:29:00 GMT

In answer to your questions:
1) Yes, it's running using IIS.
2) I'm using IIS5 on XP and I've only seen compression settings in IIS6 (so there's nothing to disable).
3) External .js files are found. Just script that is handled by WebResource.axd is not found

I found the problem. It's in the application's global.asax.vb file in the Sub Application_BeginRequest(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) event where we decrypt querystrings. Our code tries to decrypt the querystring in requests to get the javascript like the following:
/webappXYZ/WebResource.axd?d=HP3pvyYCwAinmgetO0eAlQ2&t=632674127977343750 and really screws it up! (I guess we can work around this! :) )

Thanks for your response.

Katie

re: First Preview Download of VS 2005 Web Application Project Model Now Available

Harald M. Genauck — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:17:00 GMT

Hi Scott,

one of the issues of the preview is that control field references aren't automatically added to the designer code-behind class files.

I'd like to ask you to make this optionally to be turnend off via an attribute in the page or control directive. So you can have the references already being declared in a class from which the page's or control's code-behind class might derive.

Thanks,

Harald

re: First Preview Download of VS 2005 Web Application Project Model Now Available

scottgu — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:51:00 GMT

Hi Katie,

I'm glad the conversion build process worked! That is usually the hardest part of conversions, so if you have things building clean we are getting close.

A couple of questions for you:

1) Are you running the web-app using IIS or using the built-in Web Server? When you launch the browser is it saying http://localhost/ (if not, then you are probably not using IIS). If you are running using the built-in web-server, then that is probably why you can't find the Infragistics script libraries. You should make sure you are running using IIS instead.

2) Do you have Http Compression enabled on your IIS web-site? If so, have you tried turning it off per Anatoly's blog post: http://blogs.x2line.com/al/archive/2005/12/03/1351.aspx

3) When you do a view-source in the html of the app when it runs, what are the external .js files it is importing (script src="")? In particular, what are the locations of the Infragistrics script libraries? Can you verify that they are installed on IIS in that location?

Thanks,

Scott

re: First Preview Download of VS 2005 Web Application Project Model Now Available

Katie — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:30:00 GMT

Hi Scott,

I just converted a large web application we have using the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Preview. This new conversion method is perfect for our scenario. The conversion went fine, the projects built, and the web app ran. However, the javascript calls cannot be found. For example, when I click a submit button I get a javascript error saying 'WebForm_PostBackOptions' is undefined. Also any javascript associated with Infragistics controls is not found. In my reading I found discussions relating this problem to WebResource.axd (http://blogs.x2line.com/al/). Apparently with 2.0, validation scripts are processed via server-side WebResource.axd handler while in ASP.NET 1.1 you can find them in aspnet_client folder. I think Infragistics made this change as well.

Anyway, has this problem been identified by anyone else who has converted using this new Project Model? I converted another similar application not using the Project Model and all scripts are found and run fine including Infragistics.

Thanks,

Katie

re: First Preview Download of VS 2005 Web Application Project Model Now Available

scottgu — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:25:00 GMT

Hi Jason,

In 2003 you could actually pass the security ID from one web project to another. As long as they are apps running on the same domain (eg: www.site.com/app1 and www.site.com/app2, or app1.site.com and app2.site.com) then this is pretty easy. You just need to configure the appropriate forms-auth cookie in the forms-auth section of your app's web.config files.

Is this what you are trying to-do, or something else? Can you provide more details on this?

thanks,

Scott

re: First Preview Download of VS 2005 Web Application Project Model Now Available

scottgu — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:26:00 GMT

Hi Srinivas,

If you've upgraded and are happy with your current web-site, then I'd recommend just sticking with that option. This new download is primarily aimed at folks who either had large projects that would be hard to compete, or who preferred a stricter project model approach.

Having said that, migrating a web-site project to a web-application project will be fairly straight forward (although I'd probably recommend waiting till the next refresh drop when it will be even easier). I'll post a tutorial on how to-do this with the next refresh.

Hope this helps,

Scott