Scott Hanselman points out that Visual C# 2005 Express will grab up all your ASP.NET directories and point them to version 2.0 of the framework, without even so much as asking. This is no surprise to anyone who installed .NET 1.1 and found their settings all switched as well, during that joyless time I discovered the ASP.NET Switcher tool that uses ASPNET_REGIIS under the covers to switch selected directories I have not tried it with 2.0 yet, but I assume it will still work to switch the version back to v1.1.
(Hint for Microsoft: Ask next time!)
-James
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There is a nice new Tab in IIS called "ASP.NET" that let’s your work the version switching info graphically, but it would be nice to have the default as don’t upgrade my previous sites, agreed.
Are you serious? First of all, it is a BETA release. If you are a developer or I.T. professional, don’t install it on your primary machine.
Second, if you read the release notes (I realize almost no one does)I am sure you will find a list of a lot of the problems which Microsoft is already aware.
Third and finally, while ASPNET_REGIIS is a nice commandline tool, you can also open Internet Information Services Manager and accomplish the same result. Anyone who knows anything about .NET know the CLR and all of the base classes are Strongly Typed meaning you can have several executables with the same name (.NET Versioning). Boo hoo if you have to do some type of configuration on an application
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