Visual Studio 2005 and Visual J#
Yesterday, I installed Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition [RTM] on my machine. While configuring the installation to include the intended components, I selected only C# and VB.NET (my favorite ;). I deselected the VC++ and VJ# components. Even still VJ# re-distrubutable components were also installed as it happened in VS .NET 2003. After successfully installing the VS.NET 2005 Standard Edition, I created a new web site project and noticed that in the languages drop-down I could see the "Visual J#" as one of the item. I wondered, how is that getting displayed in the drop-down as I did not included/installed the Visual J# Components during installation.
Then, what I did was selected the language as "Visual J#" and created a new web site project. The strange thing was that it created the new project with a default page. I am not able to get into code behind file as VJ# components are not installed. But I can able to create event handlers in the aspx page itself (script block).
I don't understand the following:
- Why VJ# is listed in the language drop-down (Even its not included during installation)?
- Even though some languages/components are not included, Will it possible to create pages with those languages?
- Is there a way to remove the "Visual J#" list from the drop-down?
Now, I started exploring the features of VS.NET 2005 by going thru Scott Guthrie's introduction demo on ASP.NET 2.0