ASP.NET 2.0 and VS 2003

[Guest]

Hi,

I have a general ASP.NET question. As far as I understand, if I install the
Framework 2.0 I also get ASP.NET 2.0. However I don’t want to spent the money
to buy VS 2005 right now. Can I write ASP.NET 2.0 Websites in VS 2003?

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Short answer : NO.

Qualifier : if you want to use 2.0 objects, that is.

You can write 2.0-targeted websites with Notepad if you want to,
but you won't get 2.0-targeted anything in VS 2003.




Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
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[Guest]

Bummer, Well, i guess i have to spent the money or stick with 1.1

Thanks

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:

Bummer, Well, i guess i have to spent the money or stick with 1.1

Actually, you *can* develop, for free, 2.0 applications
with VWD 2005 ( Visual Web Developer Express 2005 ).

It's a free download this year. Download it now :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/

You can also download the free .Net Framework 2.0 redistributable at :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...cb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en

And, you can download, for free, the .Net Framework 2.0 SDK at :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...99-B7B4-4F47-A244-C96D69C35DEC&displaylang=en



Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
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[Erik Funkenbusch]

Hi,

I have a general ASP.NET question. As far as I understand, if I install the
Framework 2.0 I also get ASP.NET 2.0. However I don¢t want to spent the money
to buy VS 2005 right now. Can I write ASP.NET 2.0 Websites in VS 2003?

You don't need to spend a dime to develop for ASP.NET 2.0, just download
the free Visual Studio 2005 Express Visual Web Developer from Micosoft.
It's a version of Visual Studio 2005 limited to web development tasks.

 

[Alec MacLean]

To clarify, you can use VS2003 with the 2.0 framework installed.
It's just that you'll only be able to use the 1.1 (VS2003) version of the
controls.

Al

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:

To clarify, you can use VS2003 with the 2.0 framework installed.
It's just that you'll only be able to use the 1.1 (VS2003) version of the controls.

I thought what I wrote was very clear,
but I suppose a bit more "clarification" never hurts.

Original question :

Can I write ASP.NET 2.0 Websites in VS 2003?

Answer :
What did you feel was not clear ?




Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
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[Alec MacLean]

Juan,

I understood what you were saying, but how you said it _might_ have been
mis-interpreted by _some_ as meaning that you couldn't use VS2003 with
Framework 2.0 at all.

I just didn't want the guy thinking that if he'd already got VS2003 that he
couldn't use it.

Al

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:

as meaning that you couldn't use VS2003 with Framework 2.0 at all

You can't!

You *cannot* target the .Net Framework 2.0 with VS 2003. Period.

When VS 2003 starts, even if you have the .Net Framework 2.0 installed,
VS 2003 will initialize only .Net Framework 1.1 objects.

Of course, you could use VS 2003 as you use Notepad, and not drag and drop
objects into your pages, but why load a half a gigabyte program to do work
which only requires Notepad or any HTML editor ?

The correct answer to his statement :

I don't want to spent the money to buy VS 2005 right now

is that he doesn't have to spend *any money at all* to program for ASP.NET 2.0.

This what I let him know he could do :

Actually, you *can* develop, for free, 2.0 applications
with VWD 2005 ( Visual Web Developer Express 2005 ).

It's a free download this year. Download it now :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/

You can also download the free .Net Framework 2.0 redistributable at :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...cb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en

And, you can download, for free, the .Net Framework 2.0 SDK at :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...99-B7B4-4F47-A244-C96D69C35DEC&displaylang=en

With VWD and the .Net Framework redistributable -or the SDK- there's no need
to spend money for an IDE which *can* target .Net Framework 2.0 objects.

He can continue to use VS 2003 for his
..Net Framework/ASP.NET 1.1 development.




Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
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[Alec MacLean]

I think we've crossed wires.

But you're absolutely right - if you don't need the full Studio, the Express
versions are a great place to start, plus you'll get access to all the new
features of Framework 2.0.

Al