Staring me in the face.
Ok...I've often muttered under my breath for someone to RTFM, and I am usually the one who has not read the manual. But, with a product like VS2k5, the manual is either the MSDN Help Collection, assortment of books (browsed through quickly at B&N while sipping a Mocha) or web resources (MSDN, Blogs, etc).
Today, I was working through a series of articles at MSDN (Web Development with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3). All the while, I did not notice that my ASP “Project” did not have a Project! It's a web site.
I know that there will many advantages to this, but the first one that came to mind was this: Source Control Integration. I have worked on several projects where one of the two events has happened:
- I need to add something to the web site, but another developer has the Project checked out.
- (Worse) A developer adds a new ASPX to the project and then checks the Project in, but not the ASPX. I come along, refresh the project and low, there is a Yellow Caution sign next to a Phantom Page.
Of course, I've never been guilty of that...
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