Updating an ASP.NET 1.1 app to ASP.NET 2.0 Whidbey
This is just an FYI. I have taken a copy of a couple of existing ASP.NET 1.1 applications and updated them to ASP.NET 2.0 Whidbey. The applications were relatively simple applications without a lot of complex UI items. One of the applications was a mobile ASP.NET 1.1 application. The three applications updated without a hitch and even ran properly, as far as I could tell.
I ran into one gotcha in the upgrade process. I inadvertenly updated one of my web applications by selecting it through the file system. Doing that resulted in a backup directory being created below the main directory of my application. The problem with this was that the backup directory had a web.config file. As a result, the application would not run after the upgrade process. The solution to that was to move the backup directory. Another solution, and the one I used after this, was to upgrade the application when it was installed within a directory in the web server and running as an application. In this case, the backup directory is placed in another location.