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Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition
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Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition

by Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader, Farhan Muhammad, S. Srinivasa Sivakumar
October 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1588 pages
37h 59m
English
Wrox
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Appendix B. Migrating ASP.NET 1.x Projects

In some cases, you build your ASP.NET 2.0 applications from scratch—starting everything new. In many instances, however, this is not an option. You need to take an ASP.NET application that was previously built on the 1.0 or 1.1 versions of the .NET Framework and migrate the application so that it can run on the .NET Framework 2.0.

This appendix focuses on migrating ASP.NET 1.x applications to the 2.0 framework.

Migrating Is Not Difficult

Be aware that Microsoft has done a lot of work to ensure that the migration process from ASP.NET 1.x is as painless as possible. In most cases, your applications run with no changes needed.

When moving a 1.x application to 2.0, you don't have to put the ASP.NET application on a new server or make any changes to your present server beyond installing the .NET Framework 2.0.

After you install the .NET Framework 2.0, you see the framework versions on your server at C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework as illustrated in Figure B-1.

In this case, you can see that I have all three official versions of the .NET Framework installed including v1.0.3705, v1.1.4322, and v2.0.50727.

Figure B-1

Figure B.1. Figure B-1

Running Multiple Versions of the Framework Side by Side

From this figure, you can see that it is possible to run multiple versions of the .NET Framework side by side. ASP.NET 1.0, ASP.NET 1.1, and ASP.NET 2.0 applications can all ...

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