Visual Studio 2003

nero120 · 18 Jul 2006 at 16:25

Hi guys, just got VS 2003 and I must say it is doing my head in. Is there any way to use the app without having to create a project? I just want to edit existing aspx files (that use code behind) and ave the benefit of code completion and stuff like that. If VS cant do it is there any c# .net dev environments that can?

happytechie · 18 Jul 2006 at 16:27

no

you need to create a project (and a solution) each time

HT

Gman · 18 Jul 2006 at 23:38

as happytechie says you have to create a project as its the creation of the project that tells visual studio where some of the nessesary files are i.e. when you have to build the codebehind files into the dll's in the bin folder.

akakjs · 19 Jul 2006 at 07:47

You need somekind of framework for storing compile instructions, paths etc so you need a solution/project file

if you want an alternative IDE (as your not getting on with VS2003), You can write .NET 1.1 in VisualStudio 2005 with msbuild (which is meant to be a lot better), or there are opensource options http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

akakjs

nero120 · 19 Jul 2006 at 09:21

Thanks for the options guys. I think for the remainder of this project I'll just be using VS2003 as a text editor and hopefully for the next project we will move to .net 2.0. Then I will start playing around with the project/solution functionality.