Welcome to the Web Application Projects Forum!

Web Application Projects provide another web project model that can be used as an alternative to the Web Site Project model currently available in Visual Studio 2005. This new model is ideal for web site developers converting a Visual Studio .Net 2003 web project to Visual Studio 2005 — it provides the same conceptual web project model (a project file based structure where all code in the project is compiled into a single assembly) but with all the new features of Visual Studio 2005 (e.g. refactoring, class diagrams, test development, generics) and ASP.NET 2.0 (e.g. master pages, data controls, membership/login, role management, Web Parts, personalization, site navigation, themes).

A new version of Web Application Projects has been released on May 8, 2006! It can be downloaded and installed into your current version of Visual Studio from this location — http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=57541

Be sure to read An Introduction to Web Application Projects by Omar Khan and check out the excellent tutorials done by Scott Guthrie!

Please use this forum to discuss issues and provide feedback on this new web project model. We will monitor it closely and respond quickly.

Thank you — The Visual Studio Web Project Team