Upgrading and Deploying Applications

The default installation of Visual Studio 2005 supports a different model than that supported in the previous version because it no longer uses a project system. A folder-based approach is used instead, where a Web project consists solely of the files in a folder. This has caused some problems with upgrading existing applications, so the migration wizard has been updated and is available as a separate download. Also available as add-ons to Visual Studio are Web Application projects, which bring back the project-based approach, making migration of projects easier to manage.

Deployment is also eased by another add-on, Web Deployment Projects. This add-on allows more control over the compilation and deployment process, such as the ability to have different configuration files for development and deployment.

All three of these don't change the base framework, and are simply addons for Visual Studio 2005. You can obtain them from http://www.asp.net/.