Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project RC released!

Great Tool for your Web Applications!

What’s new?

  • Event handler generation and wire-up from the WYSIWYG designer
  • F7/Shift-F7 Navigation Support (switch between page views)
  • Add New Item Wizard to add pages based on Master Pages (easily pick master)
  • Richer Publishing Support
  • Connection String and Settings Support in Web.Config
  • Resources and .Resx Resource Editor Support
  • Support for building multi-project applications and sub-web projects
  • .ASPX files no longer locked when debugging
  • Support for root-path based image and stylesheets (/images/foo.jpg)
  • Control Registrations within Web.Config files
  • Web Service Cross-Project Reference Support
  • Section 508 and WCAG Accessibility Checker Support
  • Ability to create an IIS Vroot/Application setting within Project Dialog
  • SQL DataSource Control Support
  • ASP.NET Custom Folder Templates
  • Component Designer Support
  • Support to Drag/Drop User Controls, StyleSheets, Images from Solution Explorer to designer
  • New Web Service Project Template
  • SQL Express Support

If you have installed and used the previous two preview releases of the VS 2005 Web Application Project, you can simply uninstall the previous installs and install this new one. The project file format and code is the same, so your apps will keep working (but now with more features to use).

ScottGu wrote a nice Walk-Through, check it out here.

Download here.

2 comments ↓

#1 K.Senthil Kumar (Sensoft2000) on 08.23.06 at 12:47 pm

I am using Visual studio web express edition. But i couldnt open my resource files. How to open those resource files. Is there any editor to open the resource files? I already tried with “winres.exe”. I think that editor only for windows resource files..

#2 andreas.kraus on 08.23.06 at 4:12 pm

Sorry, I assume that’s not possible with VS Studio Web Express.

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