Whidbey with .Net framework 1.1 .. possible?
Hi,
This might be a bad question, but is it possible to use the MSBuild tool with ASP.Net? I wanna take advantage of Whidbey's enhanced IntellSense and code completion features that supersede what was offered with older VS.Net version?
One more question, I tried the tool with a windows application project and I managed to see the dialog as descriped in your bolg. However, the browse button does not seem to be working...I hope am not right, am I?
Appreciate your help,
Mahmood.
Mahmood,
I am afraid that the answer to your first question is No. VS2005 is meant to target 2.0 version of the .NET Framework only - however it is designed to peacefully coexist with VS 2003, so you can have both tools installed on the same system.
I do know of many people who have Visual Studio 2005 projects and VS 2003 projects but with a single shared set of source files/artifacts. This enables them to use VS2005 as the development environment, but still allows you to fire up VS2003 to build for .NET 1.1 by building the VS2003 projects. You just have to be extra careful to not use any of the Whidbey only features such as generics, newer types in the BCL that didn't exist in 1.1, etc.
As far as MSBuild goes, you can use it to precompile ASP.NET 2.0 projects by simply invoking msbuild on the solution file that contains the ASP.NET projects. This simply invokes the aspnet_precompiler on the web projects in the solution. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for.
Lastly, I am not sure what your question regarding the windows application project means. Also, any ideas on which blog you are referring to will be useful.
Hope this helps.
Faisal Mohamood
MSBuild Team - Visual Studio
