Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project
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  • Creating and Using User Control Libraries
  • Migrating VS 2003 Web Projects to VS 2005
  • Migrating VS 2005 Web Site Projects to VS 2005 Web Application Projects
• VB Tutorials
  • Building Your First Web Application Project
  • Understanding VS 2005 Code Behind Model
  • Building Pages with VS 2005 Web Application Projects
  • Data Binding against Objects
  • Master Pages and Site Navigation
  • Creating and Using User Control Libraries
  • Migrating VS 2003 Web Projects to VS 2005
  • Migrating VS 2005 Web Site Projects to VS 2005 Web Application Projects
• Known Issues

Preview Notes

The Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Preview is implemented as a 1Mb download that installs on top of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition and higher (it is not supported with Visual Web Developer).

The RC1 release of VS 2005 Web Application Project preview requires installing a VS 2005 service pack. For more informaion click here. The installation for VS 2005 Web Application Project will automatically redirect to this location if the service pack is not installed. This service pack does not change or affect the behavior of VS 2005 web-site projects -- it simply adds support for this new project type and capabilities to Visual Studio.

RC1 release of VS 2005 Web Application Project is generally feature complete and represents the final working feature set. There are a few known issues in this release. Please read the Known Issues page for more details on these.

Download and Installation Notes:

Important: Please first shutdown all running instances of Visual Studio 2005 before running setup.

Important: If you have the first preview download of the VS 2005 Web Application Project build installed, please uninstall it now through Add/Remove Programs.

Click Here to download the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Preview (RC1). Once downloaded, run the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Preview setup. If you have not yet installed the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack for Web Application Projects you will be redirected to that download page. Once the service pack is installed you can can restart the installation of Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project and accept the EULA. The setup will then take a few minutes to install.

Once setup is complete, you can start Visual Studio 2005 again, and then select File->New Project. It may take 20-30 seconds to bring up the New Project dialog the very first time after running setup (VS will be re-indexing the project templates -- this is a one time action, and won't happen the second time you select New Project). You will then be able to create a new Visual Studio Web Application Project:

To learn more about how to use Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects, please review these tutorials: