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.

Wally

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