ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application Projects
I recently posted about how the lack of project files in Visual Studio 2005 Web Site Projects make it difficult to deploy web applications.
I just came across this add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that actually addresses this very issue. It’s called the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects (WAP) and is available as a free download from Microsoft. WAP provides following features to ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Projects in Visual Studio 2005:
- A project file that contains references to all web content as well as any assembly references.
- Compilation into single assembly that is built into the bin folder.
- Pre and Post Build actions.
While WAP is aimed at developers converting web applications from Visual Studio 2003, I think that it’s an invaluable tool for anyone creating web applications using Visual Studio 2005.
