I have installed the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects (RC1)  and am having problems getting the migration wizard to be invoked.

We are migrating from Source Code Control.  When I do "File->Source Control->Open From Source Control.." I seem to be getting the standard VS 2005 migration.  I am assuming that it is the standard since an "App_Code" directory is being created and the migration wizard does a somewhat haphazard job of moving the code-behind files into that directory.

I have also tried to do a "Get Latest" on the solution and try the migration on disk, with similar results.

I have successfully done the "Manual" project conversion on the first solution and am planning on using it for the others.  If you have any insite into how I can get the automatic conversion t work, please let me know.

Best regards,

Metro.

Is your web project a remote front page web?  Web Application Projects can't directly open or edit remote frontpage webs.  Only Web Site projects can directly edit FrontPage webs, consequently migration will convert FrontPage webs to Web Sites.

If this is indeed your scenario, and you want to use Web Application Projects you'll need to copy the remote web locally and configure it as a local IIS web in VS03.  Now when you open the project in VS05 you will get the Web Application Project migration.  If you don't want to use IIS locally you can always convert it to new File based web after migration.  This will use the embedded server aka Cassini. 

You can then use the Publish Web feature of Web Application projects to push your applicaiton up to a remote site using FrontPage server extensions.

If your project is not a FrontPage web then I'll need to get more information on what might be causing the migration not to kick in.

Thanks, Brad

To the best of my knowledge, our web solutions do not use front page.  All of our development uses local IIS webs.  I have one more web solution that needs to be converted and I plan on doing it manually.  The additional effort is not that great and I need to get this done today.

Best regards,

Metro.

You can try File->Open Project/Solution, then select source control tab.

Baiju

Hi,

This is related to this thread but my problem is slightly different.

I downloaded RC1 yesterday and tried running it on my 1.1 web app.It appeared to run the Web Site conversion wizard, not the web app conversion wizard.

I had no problems during the install.

Is there any way to check or force the web app conversion wizard to run?

Thanks.

-Stuart

Hi Stuart,

Is your web application on a local or remote server?  If it is on a remote server, you'll want to copy it locally and get it running, and then covert it.  This tutorial walksthrough how to-do this: http://webproject.scottgu.com/CSharp/Migration/Migration.aspx

Hope this helps,

Scott

Hi Scott,

My app is local, opened via HTTP. By the way it's a VB.NET project.

The project is normally connected to source safe and I didn't check to see whether I had removed it from source control. I will try that. I will also try opening the project via the file system.

Assuming that the above doesn't work, is there any way that I can check that the Web App migration wizard is installed and is set as the default wizard? (Registry settings, etc?)

Thanks for your help.

-Stuart

Hi Scott,

The wizard worked! I unbound all projects from Source Safe and opened the solution again and it worked.

Thanks for your help.

Based on this, I will be recommending migrating our vs 2003 app to 2005 using web app projects.

By the way, any idea when VS 2005 SP1 will be coming out?

Thanks again!

-Stuart

Hi Stuart,

Cool -- I'm glad it worked! :-)

SP1 will be coming out in the third quarter of this year, although we'll have betas of it public before then.

Hope this helps,

Scott