Migrating to VS 2005, really too hard!

I am really optimistic by nature (yes it’s true) but the migration to VS 2005 is really too hard :-(

If only my boss could let met six months alone on a (tropical) remote island with my laptop, few .Net 2.0 books (and a good provision of beers) yes I will be so happy.
But in my not so exotic life, I have to deal with many things and I don’t get the thing, too much things going wrong, really hairy and scary.

Now I decided a new approach. I am going to rewrite my project from scratch in VS 2005, copy the stuff I need from VS 2003, lost a lot of sweat on the way, but hopefully I should have something working in the next 20 days.

UPDATE: Yes it works much better and it’s also a great way to discover what’s going wrong. OK it take a lot of more time but you finish with a much cleaner project.

Keith asked me why I have so many problems, so yes OK I will try to share.

– All my projects included in the solution disappeared. OK fine, but if I follow well when I start from scratch in VS 2005, I can have almost exactly the same structure than in VS 2003. So why the migration tool can’t do the same?

– all the .Resx files appears out of their usual place.

VS 2003

Webform.aspx

—> Webform.aspx.vb

——-> Webform.aspx.resx

VS 2005

Webform.aspx

—> Webform.aspx.vb

Webform.aspx.resx (same level than the aspx file)

I have no clue what to do with those files, should I delete them?.

– Show All files doesn’t seems to work in a web project.

This is just the start, the list can really be too long.

Now starting again from scratch and copy and paste my code I have less problems except this one:

If I add a Class Library to an existing web solution, everything fine. But if I reference from the web project the class library I don’t understand why the class library files are duplicated in my web project. Maybe the way I reference the project is wrong??

 

 

2 Comments

  • Maybe I am lucky but I have moved three projects now, two major ones. One of them was up and running in less than 30 minutes and the other took a couple days.



    What is it exactly that is giving you such a headache? Is there some gotcha that you have found when upgrading? At least tell us why you are having the problems.

  • I am having a few issues but overall I think the migration wizard is great.



    My small projects pretty much converted perfectly (or with 1-2 simple changes required).



    The huge one I have (a few years worth of work)....Took about a full day of work to get converted, but I pretty much expected that.



    David Taylor

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