Visual Web Developer Question?

[Patrick Olurotimi Ige]

Is Visual Web Developer is it worth installing?
Can i use Web Matrix with ASP.Net 2.0?
Cos i know VWDeveloper is meant for ASP.Net 2.0 and not ver 1.1.
Can both run side by side?

 

[Karl Seguin]

I think people's experience with this has been mixed...I know I've
successfully done it, but I think I've heard others have not...don't do it
on a production machine

I'm pretty sure side-by-side support is officially supported in Beta1, but
being beta means nothing is really official

Karl

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[Patrick Olurotimi Ige]

Thx Karl for the reply.
Def not on a production server!
So how do you run ur applications side by side if ur using both
versions..
Can u hint me?

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:

Is Visual Web Developer is it worth installing?

If you want to develop ASP.NET 2.0 applications
in a much more lighter environment than VS.NET, yes.

re:

Can i use Web Matrix with ASP.Net 2.0?

You can, but you won't have any 2.0 objects
that you can simply drag into pages.

Anything you write within Web Matrix will run, though
( if properly written, of course ).

You can use Notepad with ASP.NET 2.0, too. ;-)

re:

Can both run side by side?

Yes. Web Matrix runs against .Net Framework 1.1,
and VWD runs against .Net Framework 2.0.

I'm running them both as we speak...

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:

So how do you run ur applications side by side
if ur using both versions..

You ensure that each application is pointed to the
correct .Net Framework version, and you make
sure that all 1.1 apps run in one Application Pool
and that all 2.0 apps run in a different Application Pool.

No big thing. It takes about 1 minute to do that.
They run perfectly side-by-side.

 

[Patrice]

AFAIK it depends on the site settings. "aspnet_regiis" allows to know which
version is running on a particular site...

Patrice

 

[Patrick Olurotimi Ige]

Thx for the advice..
But on installing both...
Would i still need to do some extra setup ?
I mean will the 2 versions install seperately?
So when i run apps on Asp web Matrix it will use ver 1.1 and Visual
Developer wpould use ver 2.0?

 

[Patrick Olurotimi Ige]

Can i use Appl pool on IIS 5?
And how do u ensure each apps is pointed to the right one.

 

[Karl Seguin]

no, but then you can only run one at a time..which should sitll be
acceptable in development....when you install 2.0, a new tab in IIS shows up
to switch which version it's running under..else you could use aspnet_regiis

Karl

--
MY ASP.Net tutorials
http://www.openmymind.net/ - New and Improved (yes, the popup is
annoying)
http://www.openmymind.net/faq.aspx - unofficial newsgroup FAQ (more to
come!)

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

My personal choice is using Denis Bauer's
ASP.NET Version Switcher.

http://www.denisbauer.com/NETTools/ASPNETVersionSwitcher.aspx

Denis should get a medal for writing this app.

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:

But on installing both...
Would i still need to do some extra setup ?

No. Just set them up.

re:

I mean will the 2 versions install seperately?

Yes, they will ( separate install setups ).

re:

So when i run apps on Asp web Matrix it will use
ver 1.1 and Visual Developer would use ver 2.0?

Exactly.

*But*, you can still write version 2.0 apps in Web Matrix.

It's only that you won't have the 2.0 objects
available for dragging into files, and the class browser
will only be able to see the .NET Framework 1.1 assemblies.

Anything you hand-code with it will run in 2.0, though.

 

[Patrick Olurotimi Ige]

Thx Karl.
Juan i will look up Denis Bauer's ASP.NET Version Switcher.
Patrick