Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available

re: Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available

ScottGu — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:53:11 GMT

Hi Grundt,

With VS 2005 Web Application Projects, you can right-click on the project and pull up its property page. You can then click on the "Build Events" tab to setup pre or post build events.

To learn about how to associated a web deployment project you can check out this blog post that I did: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/11/06/429723.aspx

Hope this helps,

Scott

re: Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available

grundt — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:20:50 GMT

Hi Scott,

In your response to Terry, you said to have the Web Deployment Project do a "post-deployment build" of the Web Application Project ... can you elaborate ?

( I can't figure out how to do that )

Also, you said to add the Web Deployment Project "to the solution" ... you meant add it "to the Web Application Project", correct ?

( I couldn't find a way to add a Web Deployment Project directly to a solution )

re: Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available

ScottGu — Tue, 30 May 2006 15:03:11 GMT

Hi Terry,

You can actually accomplish this by adding a VS 2005 Web Deployment Projects to your solution and have it do a post-deployment build of the VS 2005 Web Application Project. You can then configure it to have non-updatable .aspx content (meaning the html is compiled into the output assembly).

Hope this helps,

Scott

Looking for a way to compile with Updateable=false

Terry — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:42:14 GMT

Hi Scott,

I am attempting to use the output of one web project as a reference in another. I am looking for a way to set the build to Updateable=false (or similar) so that even Aspx and Ascx files are compiled into that source project's dll.

Other than this special need, the web project is a huge improvement. Thanks to you and the team!

Terry

re: Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available

scottgu — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:54:00 GMT

Hi Brad,

The publish feature will be coming later this month with the next refresh (it will provide the same copy project semantics as VS 2003).

Note that you can also now use Web Deployment Projects with Web Application Projects -- so if you want custom publish MSBuild script rules you can also use that.

Hope this helps,

Scott

re: Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available

Brad — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:45:00 GMT

This is working great, and is exactly what we needed. The only thing missing is a "Publish" option (FTP/FrontPage/Local IIS). If that were included it would be perfect.

Thanks!
Brad

re: Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available

Krishna — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:49:00 GMT

Hi Scott,

Yup, that would work, this is Awesome, Just tried it out and it worked great, makes it much more easier in writing the Unit Tests..Thanks !

Krishna

re: Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available

scottgu — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:44:00 GMT

Hi Krishna,

You can actually open up the designer.cs file and mark the controls public now (we enabled this with this second refresh). You should also be able to use the refactoring tools to enable this.

Does that work for you?

Thanks,

Scott

re: Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available

Krishna — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:20:00 GMT

Hi Scott,

A quick suggestion/feedback

Is there a possibility to make the Control declarations public in the designer.cs file by the atuo-gen tool instead of them being protected? We are using Team System for unit testing the ASPX Pages, right now team system testing runtime host for ASP.Net exposes only the Page object but from there on we would have to use the Page.FindControl function get a reference to the control within the Page. Since we can only pass the Id of the control as a string to the function there is no Compile-time check.

By having an option to Mark the Controls Public opens a lot of possibilities, we can make a reference to the Compiled Assembly of the Web Application Project from within the Unit Test Project and have strongly-typed access not only to the Page but also have strongly typed access to all of the controls within the page, makes Unit Testing a lot easier then it is today.

Even a registry setting to enable this option would be very helpful !

Thanks,
Krishna

re: Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available

scottgu@microsoft.com — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:42:00 GMT

Hi Curtis,

By default when you say File->Add New Item->Page to the project, it will add a .aspx page with a code-behind file. If you want, though, you can delete the code behind file and just have the .aspx.

Hope this helps,

Scott